leave
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And a full agreement is now almost done, with Guimaraes waiting for permission to leave Newcastle's training base in La Manga, in Spain, to finalise the formalities of his move to Emirates Stadium.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
Athletes were expected to leave the Games in line with the Glasgow 2026 length of stay policy, with Games accommodation ending two nights after each athlete's sport had concluded.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
Leave laws simply protect workers from being fired because they are on leave, she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
Senators are scheduled to leave Washington in the coming days for their annual five-week August recess.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
A nagging thought: What time does the bus leave here?
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Plenty of leaves carry no job protection at all, such as sabbaticals and vacations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
Sleeping out in the stifling summer heat leaves her exhausted, but what distresses her more is not knowing when or how this situation will end.
From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026
Many of us appreciate artistic execution that leaves plenty of openings for wild interpretations.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
That leaves fewer shaded, humid spaces for water to pool and mosquitoes to hide, as well as more access for mosquito predators such as birds and larger insects.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026
The river eyes were still in their nest of rowan leaves.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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
For a moment I paused beneath a low, thickly leaved tree, looking down the well-kept doily-shadowed walks past the silent houses.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
The Philippines' outsourcing sector is also non-unionised, leaving many workers with little formal say over how new technologies are deployed.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
While Iran has demanded tolls, a proposed deal would let leaving vessels pass through Omani waters without paying fees.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
That trade has since unwound dramatically, leaving growth more than two standard deviations oversold relative to value, partly because of the recent blowup of the AI-focused hedge fund Situational Awareness.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026
These organisms sometimes colonized the surfaces of bones, leaving recognizable signatures behind.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
The waters had since subsided, leaving a mess of wet undergrowth and grass-strewn saplings.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
He is right footed, although he prefers to play on the left wing, but can also play on the right or through the middle.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
The government removed the bugs when the war ended, but some wiring was left behind and is now on display at the museum, which opened as part of redevelopment by a property company.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
But the legislation left some regulatory issues unresolved.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
In another case involving the bureau, a black Labrador named Spike who was trained to detect fire accelerants in arson investigations overheated after a sergeant left him in a car for more than four hours.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
As for dinner, the only thing left was some badly cooked codfish and stale bread.
From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios
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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