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If you don’t splurge on an airport lei greeting, pick one up at a local Target.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026

Since the crisis erupted, the interest rates at which Romania borrows have risen, and the lei currency has depreciated against the euro, which reached an all-time high of 5.21 Romanian lei on Tuesday.

From Barron's ● May 5, 2026

A white lei hung around her neck as she attempted to balance her champion’s plaque awkwardly in one hand.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2025

In return he promised monthly top-up payments of 5,000 Moldovan lei to pensioners, or about £200.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2024

He gathers my hair into his hands and caresses the back of my neck before letting the lei fall into place.

From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon

She cried afterward, as her family draped her in leis.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026

I still remember our trip well, that crispy ahi with pineapple salsa, the rainbows in Kauai and the sweet smell of the orchids and plumeria of the leis.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 24, 2025

One delegate from Hawaii accessorized his kaffiyeh with colorful floral leis.

From Slate ● Aug. 22, 2024

The family ran four stores that catered to tourists, selling aloha shirts and muumuus along with leis that Vierra’s husband, Mike Vierra, would make from plumeria blossoms he picked in their yard.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 26, 2023

Then that smell of jet fuel, that smell that welcomed me before, and leis and the scratchy blanket wrapped twice around me, and why does the window seat matter when the shades are drawn closed?

From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon