leap
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Eurozone inflation also jumped to three percent in April, from 2.6 percent in March because of a significant leap in energy prices, Eurostat said.
From Barron's • Apr. 30, 2026
In fact it was that "I had the courage to take the leap into the unknown and resign my academic post. I was temperamentally unsuited to it. It wasn't the universities' fault."
From BBC • Apr. 28, 2026
In 1972 came another revolutionary leap, when the first microprocessor—a computer shrunk down onto a silicon chip—hit the market.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2026
The shift from a package of chicken breasts to a whole bird can feel like a leap.
From Salon • Apr. 26, 2026
He looks down at the scrawling he’s made on the paper, synthesizing everything he’s written, as if expecting new information to leap out at him.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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"Still I Rise" by Maya Angelou
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