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Examples
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The risk is that significant numbers in this group leap-frog to latent hostility or active enmity.
David Miliband attacks David Cameron's 'muscular liberalism' 2011
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It was more than enough to take the three points which sees them leap-frog Cardiff City.
Ipswich Town 1-5 Norwich City | Championship match report 2011
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FlashForward only registered a 1.4 rating while Vampire Diaries managed to leap-frog it with a 1.5 rating, and you know that has to stick in the craw of ABC.
Ratings Results for the Week of April 11th – Vampire Diaries Beats FlashForward 2010
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The Patriots, who gave up a sixth-round pick to leap-frog Baltimore, had the tight end tied up.
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There are exceptions: Sectors like nanotechnology and clean energy, in which China is perceived to enjoy certain advantages, are lavished with extra funds in the hope of attaining "leap-frog" breakthroughs.
Let a Thousand Talents Bloom Raymond Zhong 2011
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FlashForward only registered a 1.4 rating while Vampire Diaries managed to leap-frog it with a 1.5 rating, and you know that has to stick in the craw of ABC.
19 « April « 2010 « Axiom's Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy 2010
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Wave, Jackson said, could be such a leap-frog that “people will be using three, four years down the road”.
What The Gmail Team Is Working On | Lifehacker Australia 2010
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The data base from which the app chooses arpeggios is a linked bifurcated system where the computer "knows" which upper structures are consonant with which lower structures so the chords can move in leap-frog fashion: top notes can remain when lower notes change or vice versa because the moves are guaranteed to make harmonic sense.
Joseph Vella: Jazz, Math, Tech & Lyle Mays Joseph Vella 2011
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Google tries to keep a hand in developing both improvements for its current products and “leap-frog projects.”
What The Gmail Team Is Working On | Lifehacker Australia 2010
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It enabled Americans to leap-frog hat tip to my friend Reuven Brenner civilizations thousands of years older.
It's Time To Allocate Capital To Pockets Of Economic Freedom Jerry Bowyer 2011
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