leak out

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leak out

[for information] to become known unofficially. I hope that news of the new building does not leak out before the contract is signed. When the story leaked out, my telephone would not stop ringing.

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Poor Huck was in the same state of wretchedness and terror, for Tom had told the whole story to the lawyer the night before the great day of the trial, and Huck was sore afraid that his share in the business might leak out, yet, notwithstanding Injun Joe's flight had saved him the suffering of testifying in court. Tom Sawyer by Twain, Mark View in context If 't wa'n't for me keeping you stiffened up, I b'lieve you'd leak out o' the house into the dooryard. Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm by Wiggin, Kate Douglas View in context I hesitated at first, to promise, but on thinking of the state of her mother's health, and how the knowledge of such a thing would fret her, and think too, of how such a story might become distorted, nay, infallibly would, in case it should leak out, I thought it wiser to do so. Dracula by Stoker, Bram View in context			lead into lead off lead on lead on a merry chase lead out of lead the field lead the life of Riley lead the pack lead the way lead to lead to believe lead to do lead up lead up the garden path lead up to lead with lead-pipe cinch leading leading question leaf leaf out leaf through league leak leak in leak out leak through leak to lean lean across lean against lean and mean lean back lean down lean forward lean in lean on lean out of lean over lean over backwards lean times lean toward lean toward doing leap leap at leap at the opportunity leap down leap for joy leap forward leap of faith leap out			Leahy, William D Leahy, William Daniel Leahy-Smith America Invents Act of 2011 LEAIQ leak leak leak leak leak leak Leak and Repair Reports Leak and Squeak Leak Before Break Leak Before Burst Leak Before Risk of Break Leak Detection Leak Detection and Monitoring Leak Detection and Repair Leak Detection and Repair Program Leak Detection Multi-Spectral System Leak Detection Pump Leak Detection System Leak Detection, Monitoring, and Mitigation Leak detector leak fungus leak in Leak inductance leak into Leak Location Services, Inc. leak out Leak Point Pressure Leak Point Pressure Leak Point Volume leak test pressure Leak Testing Leak Testing leak through leak to leak-off rate Leak-Off Test leakage leakage leakage leakage leakage leakage coefficient Leakage Collection System leakage conductance Leakage Current Leakage Current Leakage Current Leakage Current Leakage Current Leakage Current Detection Interruption leakage factor Leakage flux leakage halo leakage indicator Leakage inductance leakage intake system

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