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leaked

  • past participle of leak.
  • past tense form of leak.

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In May, a leaked audio recording showed him asking banker Daniel Vorcaro to finance a Hollywood film about his father titled "Dark Horse."

From Barron's • Jul. 3, 2026

Shmatikov said that users face two main risks: surveillance and their data being leaked.

From MarketWatch • Jul. 1, 2026

The documentary was also never publicly released, but shown only to senior party officials in June 2012, says Dr Cheong - though it was later leaked and spread among ordinary citizens via smuggled USB drives.

From BBC • Jun. 27, 2026

“My relationship with Andrea Giambruno, which lasted nearly 10 years, ends here,” she wrote in a social-media post the morning after the recordings leaked.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 27, 2026

Ms. Hussey was not there, and word had leaked to the papers that she had been arrested the night before as a suspect in the theft.

From "Chasing Vermeer" by Blue Balliett