leave
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"They're learning how to leave," she says, "but we're learning how to let go."
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
Nomura analysts expect that the SNB will leave interest rates at zero percent until at least the end of 2027.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
“You can’t leave any stones unturned because he can make all the throws, and he’s got the ability to extend plays with his feet or make plays with his feet,” Hitschler said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
"If you're traveling this weekend, give yourself extra time. Check your train, ferry, or flight before you leave, and avoid low-lying coastal roads around high tide," Mamdani said on X.
From Barron's ● Sep. 25, 2026
You would come to cheer her up, but you would be the one who would leave that silent bedroom, spirit mysteriously and gloriously renewed.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
He said these statistical traces are akin to "fingerprints that a criminal leaves at a crime scene."
From Barron's ● Sep. 25, 2026
David Raslevich, a 41-year-old cyclist who frequently rides on the new lanes on Clark, said he has noticed branches, leaves and other debris.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
If she leaves the property to her children, they could potentially receive a stepped-up basis when she dies.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
Now consider what the jobs debate leaves out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
Some of the lines are silly—about how he hogged the pepperoni pizza at our birthday party, put an obviously recyclable cup in the trash, and often leaves his shoelaces untied.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
Curly Leafed Collards: Those curly leaved varieties Smith mentions can make them look more like kale than the large, smooth leaves we typically think of with collards.
From Salon ● Jan. 27, 2023
“As soon as all the trees leaved out, I was like, ‘I’m staying forever,’” she said of spring’s recent start, singing those last few words in a soprano vibrato.
From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2022
Want to try out this delicately leaved vine?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2020
The etchings’ chief subject is nature’s bounty and mysteriousness, manifest in big, densely leaved trees and densely treed hillsides.
From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2013
He wiped a tear that was falling down his cheek, said: “You the first person who never leaved me.”
From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña
Protagonist’s job, Chief Executive Dinesh Patel explains, was to build in that toughness while leaving the toxicity behind.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Monthly essentials like utilities, food and transportation can easily eat up $500–$1,000, leaving little cushion for emergencies or home repairs.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
She was told two weeks ago she would be one of the workers facing a pay cut under the new system, leaving her "distraught".
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
Astronomers see no evidence of such a disc, leaving them without the usual explanation for the outflow and the surrounding nebula.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 2026
Father, Betsie, Willem, myself—leaving Haarlem, leaving all that was sure and safe—going where?
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
As local communities watch their sacred landscapes change, scientists and explorers are racing to document what is left.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
The pass looked doomed the moment it left Jayden Maiava’s hands.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
Matthew Stamm, a media forensics expert at Drexel University, told AFP his analysis of the image using specialized software "identified traces left by generative AI with high confidence."
From Barron's ● Sep. 25, 2026
After her husband divorced her a few years later, she left his child-support payments as a pile of cash on the table and stopped cooking the children’s meals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
That particular playdate had left us with something more like a corn octopus that was far too heavy to be hung.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Vocabulary lists containing leave
"Growing Together" and "When I Grow Up"
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"The Tragedy of Hamlet," Vocabulary from Act 3
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Spelling Practice 2, Unit 5
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