Examples of leg up in a Sentence
a key endorsement that would give the struggling candidate a real leg up right now
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This could give the company a significant leg up over its peers.
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Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2025
In addition to the Ryzen 7 AI CPU, this HP OmniBook X Flip includes Radeon 860M graphics, which will give you a leg up on content creation tasks like running video editing software.
—PC Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
Kelley susses out that Göring is pretending not to understand or speak English, and for a couple of scenes that gives the shrink a leg up.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 8 Sep. 2025
Good on you for wanting to help your son get a leg up in this housing market.
—Steve Hruby, Cincinnati Enquirer, 8 Sep. 2025
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Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2025
In addition to the Ryzen 7 AI CPU, this HP OmniBook X Flip includes Radeon 860M graphics, which will give you a leg up on content creation tasks like running video editing software.
—PC Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
Kelley susses out that Göring is pretending not to understand or speak English, and for a couple of scenes that gives the shrink a leg up.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 8 Sep. 2025
Good on you for wanting to help your son get a leg up in this housing market.
—Steve Hruby, Cincinnati Enquirer, 8 Sep. 2025
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“Leg up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/leg%20up. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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