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leapfrog

[leep-frog, -frawg] / ˈlipˌfrɒg, -ˌfrɔg /


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“At a minimum could be used to leapfrog golf carts in the Villages.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

And Gemini 4 Argon, which comes out nearly a year after Gemini 3 enabled the company to leapfrog rivals, clocks some wins.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

There could be something of a leapfrog past Holyrood in this scenario.

From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026

"The industry has to innovate and leapfrog, and not just copy and paste China," he said.

From Barron's ● May 13, 2026

With these in place, German planes could leapfrog their way up the continent and seize the American-controlled Panama Canal Zone, and perhaps even Mexico or Cuba.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

Intent on ensuring that China leapfrogs the U.S. as the world’s pre-eminent power, Xi Jinping recently made the gutsy and perhaps counterintuitive decision to invest massively in an arena of American strength—basic research.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026

Jacks played his two Tests in 2022 and leapfrogs Rehan Ahmed, Liam Dawson and Jack Leach to provide cover for Shoaib Bashir.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2025

The increase leapfrogs the Fed's 75 basis points increase last month for the largest since central banks began responding to inflation in force earlier this year.

From Reuters ● Jul. 13, 2022

Karla: Your question leapfrogs over a more important question: Should you send that email at all?

From Washington Post ● Jan. 20, 2022

But Tom was most astonished to see how he fired himself off—snap! like the leapfrogs which you make out of a goose's breastbone.

From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 2 by Charles Herbert Sylvester

Like when he somehow leapfrogged a defender while flying backward, a feat enshrined on the cover of the Madden NFL videogame.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

Anthropic has leapfrogged ahead of rival artificial intelligence developer OpenAI, filing its confidential paperwork for an initial public offering.

From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026

With a 1-0 loss in San Diego Monday, the Padres leapfrogged the Dodgers for the lead in the NL West.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026

Jurors in New Mexico leapfrogged their California peers Tuesday, handing down a $375 million verdict against Meta for endangering children while a similar lawsuit remains pending in Los Angeles County.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2026

Seth leapfrogged to the next log and landed awkwardly, teetering too far to one side.

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull

When Venus and Serena were leapfrogging each other early in their careers, often clashing in Grand Slam finals across continents and surfaces, Serena insisted their competition existed in a supportive environment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

First, the court agreed to issue its final judgment in Callais quickly, leapfrogging over the normal period when parties could seek Supreme Court rehearing.

From Slate ● May 13, 2026

Melius analyst Ben Reitzes points out that large language models have a way of leapfrogging each other.

From Barron's ● Nov. 28, 2025

At least one team that kept leapfrogging us didn’t reach their Atlantic goal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2025

“I read about it once. One of our own agents went rogue, and in order to confuse his trail he started leapfrogging through time.”

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin


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