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Intent on ensuring that China leapfrogs the U.S. as the world’s pre-eminent power, Xi Jinping recently made the gutsy and perhaps counterintuitive decision to invest massively in an arena of American strength—basic research.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

Jacks played his two Tests in 2022 and leapfrogs Rehan Ahmed, Liam Dawson and Jack Leach to provide cover for Shoaib Bashir.

From BBC • Sep. 23, 2025

The increase leapfrogs the Fed's 75 basis points increase last month for the largest since central banks began responding to inflation in force earlier this year.

From Reuters • Jul. 13, 2022

If you don’t know where Jupiter is, the first-quarter moon leapfrogs over it Sept. 5 and 6, and the swelling moon sneaks past Saturn on Sept. 7 and 8.

From Washington Post • Aug. 31, 2019

But Tom was most astonished to see how he fired himself off—snap! like the leapfrogs which you make out of a goose's breastbone.

From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 2 by Sylvester, Charles Herbert