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The moment the ball lept off his bat -- a scorched drive to right that rattled around the bleachers -- Outman’s typically stoic on-field demeanor immediately began to fade.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2023

The number of workers on strike in October likewise lept to 25,000 – a far cry from the preceding three-month average of 10,000.

From Salon • Nov. 6, 2021

As he drove back a Bengals offensive lineman, Payne lept up and swatted Andy Dalton’s pass — deflecting it right to safety Montae Nicholson.

From Washington Times • Aug. 21, 2019

But he and the ball collided with Pickford, who lept out and made a brilliant save.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 12, 2018

Whereupon one of the Spaniards vnraied himselfe, and lept into the water, and swam to the boat, whom we receiued.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 11 by Hakluyt, Richard