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leaking
  • present participle of leak.

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Leaking confidential documents may violate the judicial and American Bar Association’s rules of conduct.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

Leaking pipes have caused £4m worth of damage to the Acute Mental Health Inpatient Centre at Belfast City Hospital.

From BBC • Sep. 16, 2024

Leaking tanks went from a source of private hand-wringing to a public scandal in 1983, the year the 60 Minutes segment ran.

From Salon • Jun. 19, 2023

Leaking natural gas is far more harmful for the climate than carbon dioxide, ton for ton.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 26, 2022

Distress occasioned by the Leaking of the Resolution.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 17 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Kerr, Robert