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leaflet

[leef-lit] / ˈlif lɪt /




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At the entrance to one registration office, a maternity health leaflet wishes newlyweds “a happy marriage and a speedy pregnancy.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

In an exclusive interview, Michelle Dyson said patients were "too often diagnosed, discharged and sent home with little more than a leaflet".

From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026

Mui offers him a leaflet in case he wants more information, and the man refuses to take it.

From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2025

Of the 107 young people brought into custody during the pilot, 97% accepted an information leaflet about the service.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2025

The leaflet denounced the Nazi government and spoke about its evils.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

At rush hour in Nazareth, the largest Arab-majority city in Israel, students are handing out leaflets by the roadside urging motorists to vote in next week's closely fought, general election.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

Officers who have been handing out hundreds of leaflets to try to locate Lillia have now released new footage of her at a McDonald's restaurant in Piccadilly from Sunday at about 20:20 BST.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

A civil protection officer handed out bottles of water and leaflets on how to behave in the extreme heat, standing in front of a 3,000-litre tanker feeding the mister and the crowds around it.

From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026

“She walked around those halls just putting her head into offices unannounced, picking up leaflets, starting conversations to find out what programs existed that could benefit her community,” Orleck explained.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

First, planes flew over dropping millions of warning leaflets, written in Japanese.

From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac

Outraged by the increase, the 65-year-old leafletted all houses on the estate and challenged the bill, eventually negotiating the lower fee for all 120 households.

From BBC ● Dec. 1, 2024

“They shouted obscenities, disparaged Heartbeat’s staff, volunteers, and supporters, and leafletted the venue with propaganda hoping to dissuade women from using Heartbeat’s services,” said the complaint.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 30, 2023

In the past, local pit villages and council estates have been leafleted to advertise the Baltic as a centre for everyone.

From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2025

They leafleted neighborhoods, black and white, with fliers meant to both intimidate and recruit.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 5, 2018

The musicians union said its members recently leafleted outside a desert location shoot in Pearblossom, Calif., calling upon the show's production company, Picrow, to recognize musicians' right to a labor contract.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2016

I often hear older people, those who marched, leafleted and shouted for justice in the ’60s, complain that Kids These Days are too complacent.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 14, 2014

Quayle campaign aides liked the series so much they leafleted reporters in New Hampshire who were covering the Bush-Quayle re-election effort, Kurtz reported.

From Slate ● Nov. 25, 2009

According to Amnesty, the jihadists had been leafleting the two villages for the last five months.

From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2026

The party is proud of its so-called "ground war" – the pavement pounding, door knocking and leafleting that goes on away from the cameras.

From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2024

Over several days, North Korea flew hundreds of balloons to drop trash and manure on South Korea in an angry reaction against previous South Korean civilian leafleting campaigns.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 3, 2024

But the accord doesn’t clearly state civilian leafleting should also be banned.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 3, 2024

The school has been canvassing parents through leafleting and social media posts and is hoping to receive enough expressions of interest to make a primary school viable.

From BBC ● Jan. 7, 2024

She hinted that balloons could become the North’s standard response to leafletting moving forward, saying that the North would respond by “scattering rubbish dozens of times more than those being scattered to us.”

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 1, 2024

His second concern is that the bill specifically prohibits someone from leafletting or talking to someone only about vaccines.

From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2021

Among other things, Tesla security guards repeatedly ordered union organizers to stop leafletting in Tesla’s parking lots and fired one union organizer for allegedly lying during a company investigation.

From The Verge ● Oct. 1, 2019

Volunteers started liking, sharing, leafletting, knocking on doors.

From The New Yorker ● May 27, 2019

Who will find the flyposting, the leafletting, the crowds on the Royal Mile and the endless procession of performers just a tad annoying.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2011


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