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  • noun Plural form of leash.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of leash.

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Examples

  • Intellectual and personal integrity for the citizens, briefly speaking an internet that has not been transformed into a government channel by lobby-marinated courts and EU politicians in leashes, is arguably more important than the needs of a primarily industrial scene of literature and music, which is rapidly crumbling away already within the lifetime of the authors.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • My initial thoughts when seeing kids on leashes is 'lack of discipline'.

    Kid leashes: Demeaning or useful? Tyler 2009

  • As one who was bitten early by the Blackberry bug, I can attest that the pull of these wireless electronic leashes is often too strong to resist.

    Is MySpace Good for Society? A Freakonomics Quorum - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • As one who was bitten early by the Blackberry bug, I can attest that the pull of these wireless electronic leashes is often too strong to resist.

    Is MySpace Good for Society? A Freakonomics Quorum - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • But, "I forgot to bring the dogs 'leashes" -- two or more dogs.

    Peter Clothier: Apostrophe 2008

  • The heddle is a row of twines, cords, or wires called leashes, which are stretched vertically between two horizontal bars or rods, placed about a foot apart.

    Home Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle 1881

  • "Kinderkords" (also known as leashes; they allow "three full feet of freedom for both you and your child") and Baby Kneepads (as if babies don't come prepadded).

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2011

  • "Kinderkords" (also known as leashes; they allow "three full feet of freedom for both you and your child") and Baby Kneepads (as if babies don't come prepadded).

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2011

  • "Kinderkords" (also known as leashes; they allow "three full feet of freedom for both you and your child") and Baby Kneepads (as if babies don't come prepadded).

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2010

  • That means no killing, ever, no zoos, no cages, no eating them, no using them in research, no riding -- not even keeping them on leashes, which is why I found the pictures of these animal rights extremists walking dogs on leashes by Ringach's house so startling.

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science Orac none@example.com 2010

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