leaning
Example Sentences
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Two Damascus-based diplomats said thousands had left al-Hol in recent weeks, raising alarm that people with extremist leanings could be moving around Syria or trying to leave the country.
The company is leaning into that strategy to add offerings that address the new AI threats.
From Barron's
A man in a gray maintenance-staff sweatshirt stood leaning against the tile wall, but it wasn’t the same janitor who’d given him the Mountain Dew.
From Literature
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Moments before the fatal shot, King was leaning over a railing in playful conversation with Jackson, who was standing in the parking lot below.
From BBC
Maybe it’s the way the planet ignores these sports for three years and 50 weeks before comically leaning in like we’re all Ph.D.s in lutzes and double cork 1080s.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.