leaflet
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At the entrance to one registration office, a maternity health leaflet wishes newlyweds “a happy marriage and a speedy pregnancy.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
In an exclusive interview, Michelle Dyson said patients were "too often diagnosed, discharged and sent home with little more than a leaflet".
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026
The same year a patient information leaflet about Depo-Provera was updated by the UK medicines regulator and Pfizer to warn about brain tumours.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
"You've read the information leaflet," Jannoun told the injured Hearts and Scotland goalkeeper.
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026
I lean over to see what he's doing; he's scribbling on the leaflet, figuring math problems in the margins.
From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins
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Police have handed out hundreds of leaflets and used an advertising van displaying her photograph in Piccadilly Gardens as they continue efforts to find her.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
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
I grabbed one of the fake leaflets and passed it to the soldier.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
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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
They leafleted the neighbours trying to make them aware of what Mr Jammeh was accused of doing back home.
From BBC ● May 27, 2022
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
Quayle campaign aides liked the series so much they leafleted reporters in New Hampshire who were covering the Bush-Quayle re-election effort, Kurtz reported.
From Slate ● Nov. 25, 2009
According to Amnesty, the jihadists had been leafleting the two villages for the last five months.
From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2026
A local election Green Party candidate has said she is recovering well after having part of her finger bitten off by a dog while leafleting.
From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2024
The school has been canvassing parents through leafleting and social media posts and is hoping to receive enough expressions of interest to make a primary school viable.
From BBC ● Jan. 7, 2024
He and other activists could still be blocked by police in situations where their leafleting activities are seen as risking the safety of South Koreans living in border areas, the court said.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 26, 2023
The document includes detailed rundowns of union activities, such as leafleting conducted last year in five cities it says had “known” union-aligned employees, and a “marked increase in flyer distribution” early this year.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 17, 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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