leap
verb (used without object)
to spring through the air from one point or position to another; jump.
has leaped
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present perfectof leap (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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The stock market has leaped nearly 24% since hitting a bottom last October, as the economy has so far avoided a recession and inflation has come down from its peak last summer.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 15, 2023
This scene occurs long after Ram Charan's Alluri Sitarama Raju has leaped into a raging crowd of workers, battling through its crush to seize a man his boss demands to be arrested.
From Salon ● Jun. 8, 2022
In the opening pages of the novel, a new virus has leaped from dogs to human beings and is dragging its scythe around the globe.
From Washington Post ● May 10, 2022
That’s changing as the commercial space industry has leaped forward over the last few decades.
From The Verge ● Apr. 7, 2022
Every culture has leaped to the geocentric hypothesis.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
