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leaflet

[leef-lit] / ˈlif lɪt /




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While tickets are now fully digital, the accessibility team did send out a helpful printed leaflet detailing the facilities we would have access to.

From BBC Jul. 6, 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 go to the website of your council, you take a screenshot, you attach it to a leaflet then you write in big letters, whatever the main message is."

From BBC Jan. 8, 2026

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

From Slate Oct. 27, 2025

Müssner picks up the first leaflet, waves it carelessly as if it were a simple grocery list.

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

Young Roy was a political campaigner in his early teens, delivering leaflets and knocking on doors in support of local councillors and parliamentary candidates.

From BBC Jun. 14, 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

Two nights ago after dark, a group of young men had run through Santiago, distributing leaflets under doors, urging an uprising.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

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

In the past, local pit villages and council estates have been leafleted to advertise the Baltic as a centre for everyone.

From BBC Jun. 10, 2025

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

I often hear older people, those who marched, leafleted and shouted for justice in the ’60s, complain that Kids These Days are too complacent.

From Seattle Times Nov. 14, 2014

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

But the accord doesn’t clearly state civilian leafleting should also be banned.

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

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

The event will also be used to kickstart a summer programme of independence campaigning, which the party said would include leafleting, canvassing and regional assemblies.

From BBC Jun. 23, 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

His second concern is that the bill specifically prohibits someone from leafletting or talking to someone only about vaccines.

From Salon Aug. 11, 2021

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




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