leaky
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"Promptly fixing a mitral valve that is very leaky would protect the heart and could prevent congestive heart failure."
From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026
Nenna, an unemployed 32-year-old musician, lives in a leaky houseboat with her two young daughters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
This frees Lodge Quai from having to fix a leaky factory roof in, say, Düsseldorf, and it allows the local company not only to optimize its expenses, but more importantly redeploy its locked-up capital.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
Still, the UBS analysts said, the repairs many homes need, like leaky roofs, have to be made.
From MarketWatch ● May 11, 2026
The reality was decaying, dingy cities, where underfed people shuffled to and fro in leaky shoes, in patched-up nineteenth-century houses that smelt always of cabbage and bad lavatories.
From "1984" by George Orwell
A defense that seemed so strong in defeating Georgia Tech looked leakier against Furman.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 10, 2022
“Older buildings are leakier than new buildings,” she noted, pointing out that outdoor workers, the elderly and people who live in poorer neighborhoods are also less able to reduce their exposure to smoke.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 23, 2022
While full vaccination offers some protection against becoming severely ill, that protection is leakier if you haven’t been boosted, or if your last shot was more than four months ago.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2022
Nine goals in 18 league games is an incredibly worrying statistic for Davidson, especially when coupled with leakier defensive displays.
From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2021
It is leakier than any other case, and intrinsically, I think, no stronger than many of her other good cases, certainly weaker than the G. P. case.
From The Letters of William James, Vol. II by James, William
Despite losing 9-2 to Bayern Munich in their opening match, Dinamo Zagreb managed to avoid having the league phase's leakiest defence, and even kept clean sheets against Red Bull Salzburg and Celtic.
From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2025
What they had instead was the NFL’s leakiest pass defense and a group prone to pyrotechnics, surrendering a stunning number of big plays.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2023
Nelson’s presence immediately solidified an offensive line that had been among the leakiest in the NFL before his arrival.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 11, 2022
Bridgewater returned after halftime and the Broncos closed out the win by running the ball behind a makeshift line, finishing with 147 yards rushing against the league's leakiest run defense.
From Fox News ● Nov. 28, 2021
The Bean Pheasant being kept head to sea, took it smack-and-smack on the breast-bone, which was her leakiest spot; and soon, being down by the head, made shocking weather of it.
From The Laird's Luck and Other Fireside Tales by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
