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If trees are leafing out earlier, or the vegetation is denser, birds might seek higher song posts to avoid this interference, Dr. Moller suggested.

From New York Times • Apr. 21, 2020

“You get into Schmitz Preserve and it feels very far removed. The trees are leafing out and you get that bright green spring color of the new growth.”

From Seattle Times • Mar. 28, 2018

There is a guileless, everything-but-the-kitchen sink quality to these pages that sometimes feels as if we are leafing through Alexie’s private notebooks.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 19, 2017

Many of the lots back to a conservation protection area with trees that are leafing out into a green canopy.

From Washington Post • May 2, 2017

The horse-chestnut and mulberry are leafing; apple trees and peas blossoming.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson