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Leaked definition

Simple past tense and past participle of leak.
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Of a document, etc, produced by a company or organization, intended to be confidential but having been released to the public or the press.

A leaked memo from Downing Street reports that the Prime Minister is planning to call a general election next week.

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Leaked Sentence Examples

  • More magic leaked into his body, warming him.

  • It also leaked out during the investigation that he had received in 1868, as a campaign contribution, a gift of $4000 from a contractor who had supplied the government with envelopes while Colfax was chairman of the post office committee of the House.

  • Rumours of his confinement at Kholmogory having leaked out, he was secretly transferred to the fortress of Schliisselburg (1756), where he was still more rigorously guarded, the very commandant of the fortress not knowing who "a certain arrestant" committed to his care really was.

  • The plot leaked out; the rest of the monks were induced to elect John de Gray, and he too was despatched to Rome.

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