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leaflet

[leef-lit] / ˈlif lɪt /




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It's worth checking the patient information leaflet for the full details.

From BBC Jul. 6, 2026

She wasn't warned about these side effects by doctors, but when she read about them in the leaflet, she says she was reassured to see them listed as being "uncommon".

From BBC Mar. 28, 2026

The imprint was missing from a leaflet containing an open letter by a pensioner who had switched her support from Labour to Reform UK.

From BBC Feb. 25, 2026

Mui offers him a leaflet in case he wants more information, and the man refuses to take it.

From Slate Oct. 27, 2025

Mutti barely glances at the leaflet, doesn't even think it over.

From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

A civil protection officer handed out bottles of water and leaflets on how to behave in the extreme heat, standing in front of a 3,000-litre tanker feeding the mister and the crowds around it.

From Barron's Jun. 30, 2026

“She walked around those halls just putting her head into offices unannounced, picking up leaflets, starting conversations to find out what programs existed that could benefit her community,” Orleck explained.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 5, 2026

Those sponsored leaflets and postcard mailers that end up as makeshift coasters, mosquito swatters or unread refuse that goes straight from the mailbox into the blue recycle bin.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 1, 2026

"Politics was all around me," ap Iorwerth told the BBC's Political Thinking podcast, recalling how, as a toddler, he would amuse himself by piling up Plaid Cymru leaflets.

From BBC May 8, 2026

This time, the leaflets were written by their favorite professor, Kurt Huber.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Outraged by the increase, the 65-year-old leafletted all houses on the estate and challenged the bill, eventually negotiating the lower fee for all 120 households.

From BBC Dec. 1, 2024

“They shouted obscenities, disparaged Heartbeat’s staff, volunteers, and supporters, and leafletted the venue with propaganda hoping to dissuade women from using Heartbeat’s services,” said the complaint.

From Washington Times Mar. 30, 2023

We also searched for leafleted warnings which had been photographed and shared online.

From BBC Apr. 5, 2024

I have leafleted and phoned with other union members to ensure transit funding.

From Seattle Times May 20, 2022

They leafleted neighborhoods, black and white, with fliers meant to both intimidate and recruit.

From Washington Post Jun. 5, 2018

The musicians union said its members recently leafleted outside a desert location shoot in Pearblossom, Calif., calling upon the show's production company, Picrow, to recognize musicians' right to a labor contract.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 30, 2016

The IDF has also robo-called and leafleted neighborhoods, warning people to clear out before the area is invaded.

From Slate Jul. 31, 2014

According to Amnesty, the jihadists had been leafleting the two villages for the last five months.

From BBC Feb. 6, 2026

Over several days, North Korea flew hundreds of balloons to drop trash and manure on South Korea in an angry reaction against previous South Korean civilian leafleting campaigns.

From Seattle Times Jun. 3, 2024

In 2020, North Korea blew up an empty South Korean-built liaison office on its territory after a furious response to South Korean civilian leafleting campaigns.

From Seattle Times Jun. 1, 2024

It started leafleting Llantwit Major in February, soon after Vale of Glamorgan Council announced that temporary houses for refugees were going to be built on the site of a closed-down primary school.

From BBC Mar. 24, 2023

The second report, broadcast in mid-December, was about a leafleting campaign in Paris accusing a former state prosecutor in Qatar of corruption.

From BBC Feb. 18, 2023

She hinted that balloons could become the North’s standard response to leafletting moving forward, saying that the North would respond by “scattering rubbish dozens of times more than those being scattered to us.”

From Seattle Times Jun. 1, 2024

Among other things, Tesla security guards repeatedly ordered union organizers to stop leafletting in Tesla’s parking lots and fired one union organizer for allegedly lying during a company investigation.

From The Verge Oct. 1, 2019

Volunteers started liking, sharing, leafletting, knocking on doors.

From The New Yorker May 27, 2019

Who will find the flyposting, the leafletting, the crowds on the Royal Mile and the endless procession of performers just a tad annoying.

From BBC Aug. 4, 2011

Choudary and some of his followers had advertised the event by leafletting for a week among the 20,000-strong Muslim population in the town, says Bunglawala, who has closely tracked Choudary's career.

From Salon Mar. 2, 2011




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