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Definition of Leapfrogged
1. leapfrog [v] - See also: leapfrog
Lexicographical Neighbors of Leapfrogged
Literary usage of Leapfrogged
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1894)
"Leapfrogged it hundreds and hundreds of times when I were a boy, I have ; and so
has my father and grandfather afore me ; and why not my sons, ..."
2. Sea-Changes: American Foreign Policy in a World Transformed by Nicholas X. Rizopoulos (1990)
"But before the year's end, the Soviet Union leapfrogged over the Baghdad Pact,
established its presence and influence in Egypt and Syria, and subsequently ..."
3. The Air Force and the Great Engine War by Robert W. Drewes (1995)
"Then when GE contracted with the Navy to develop a gas turbine engine for PT
boats, the company inadvertently leapfrogged into an even better understanding ..."
4. Starting with Comprehension: Reading Strategies for the Youngest Learners by Andie Cunningham, Ruth Shagoury (2005)
"When I asked them how their thinking changed as we read through the book, the
conversation leapfrogged past a simple retelling and individual isolated ..."
5. Interstate Transportation of Human Pathogens: Hearing Before the Committee by Orrin G. Hatch (1999)
"... what we have heard today is again the fact that technology has to some degree
leapfrogged our approval process, and I think the challenge for all of us, ..."
6. Moving the Force: Desert Storm and Beyond by Scott W. Conrad (1994)
"VII Corps was trucked 330 miles across the desert, and XVIII Airborne Corps
leapfrogged more than 500 miles west and north. This required us to assemble a ..."
7. The Fourth Division: Its Services and Achievements in the World War by Christian Albert Bach, Henry Noble Hall (1920)
"At 9:30 AM, when the barrage rested for 30 minutes at the hostile intermediate
position, the 3rd Battalion "leapfrogged" the 2nd Battalion and the advance ..."
8. Reform and Growth in Africa by Jorge Braga de Macedo, Omar Kabbaj, African Development Bank (2000)
"... while by 199n it had leapfrogged into the selected group of countries that
had adopted the policy measures commonly advocated by Bretton Woods ..."
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