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Recent Examples of leaky
However, District 3 commissioner Beth Welch compared that effort to putting duct tape to cover holes on a leaky tank of swamp water.
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Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Mar. 2026
The defense remains leaky, but the important part was avoiding a bad loss (the same bad loss that knocked Stanford out of consideration).
—Jim Root, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2026
More than a dozen other signs reference a former redlight district, the Civil War, and a presidential party abandoning a leaky ship and swimming to shore.
—Madison Dapcevich, Outside, 11 Mar. 2026
The leaky sink that doesn’t get fixed.
—Sumathy Kumar, New York Daily News, 11 Mar. 2026
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Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Mar. 2026
The defense remains leaky, but the important part was avoiding a bad loss (the same bad loss that knocked Stanford out of consideration).
—Jim Root, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2026
More than a dozen other signs reference a former redlight district, the Civil War, and a presidential party abandoning a leaky ship and swimming to shore.
—Madison Dapcevich, Outside, 11 Mar. 2026
The leaky sink that doesn’t get fixed.
—Sumathy Kumar, New York Daily News, 11 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for leaky
porous
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Nakamura, who works almost exclusively in his native Japan, smooths over those divisions, creating reverent, porous structures that open to the landscape or curl in on themselves in repose.—
Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
1 Apr. 2026
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Activated charcoal, which can be derived from coconut shells, is porous and binds to odorous compounds, like bacteria and toxins.—
BestReviews,
Chicago Tribune,
31 Mar. 2026
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“Leaky.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leaky. Accessed 5 Apr. 2026.
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