How To Use Leapfrog In A Sentence
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It is already obvious that all four American systems have leapfrogged over the European versions.
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This victory allowed them to leapfrog Hibs and move back into third place in the league.
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And two more points over an indifferent Brods side would see them leapfrog the visitors and move within touching distance of leaders Bridlington and York.
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With the use of uplifting essential oils their metabolisms could be fooled into leapfrogging hibernation, believing they had already arrived in the scent of spring.
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Pairs of male lance-tailed manakins perform complex dances of ‘leapfrog’ stunts and flight displays to woo interested females.
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As a result, the visiting side leapfrogged their opponents to move second in the table.
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The matches against Scotland and versus Italy, in two weeks' time, are most important for Argentina, as they can be leapfrogged in the IRB rankings by the Scots.
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the company still believes the chip is a leapfrog in integration and will pay huge dividends
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Should he clinch victory today, he would leapfrog the Belgian as the most successful driver in the world's most famous endurance race with seven wins.
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Thirdly, facing the request of leapfrogging reform in university personnel system, the government should bear the responsibility to promote the university reform powerfully and exteriorly.
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Cloud Atlas (2004) by David Mitchell is another haunting book, a reading experience that can only be compared with an Everest ascent, with the thematic summit of the book occurring midway through, by which point we've leapfrogged from the the early nineteenth century to the twenty third (or thereabouts).
MIND MELD: Non-Genre Books for Genre Readers
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They've leapfrogged from third to first place.
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He points out that in Bulgaria, there is still room for product innovation, but none of the economies have leapfrogged several development stages at once.
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For Dublin, most of all, is European, looking to Bonn and Barcelona rather than London, having leapfrogged over us into Euroland with acres of European news dominating the media.
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Another had made money as a financial analyst and was leapfrogging from one investment bank to another.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then Cady has to make intimate friends - leapfrogging rank and precedence with miraculous speed - with the villainesses of the piece.
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But the rapid leapfrogging residential development of Phoenix has resulted in benefits for some.
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InfoDev enables the poorest countries to "leapfrog" from no technology to innovative technology in a way that offers "real possibilities for lifting living standards" and creating jobs, Bond told a news conference after a meeting of donors.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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There was more of a niche media on the right for many years, and then Huffington Post and TPM" - as Talking Point Memo is commonly referred to - "took it to a new professional level that in some ways kind of leapfrogged over what the conservatives were doing," [Heritage's Conn] Carroll said.
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias
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The fact that publishers can leapfrog this hurdle by agreeing to submit the full text of articles has fuelled publishers' grievances.
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With the strong arm of Roulette behind them, in July of 1966 "Hanky Panky" leapfrogged "Strangers in the Night" and "Paperback Writer" to the top of the singles charts.
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They make me feel like I'm not the only one whose brain leapfrogs all over the place.
Caution: Shallow Post-line Ahead
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American researchers have now leapfrogged the Japanese and are going to produce a digital system within a year or two.
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Do your intelligence officers know where the bad guys are planning to use this leapfrog tactic?
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He leapfrogged his classmates
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In effect, China is leapfrogging the traditional land-line telephone stage of communications development, going directly to mobile phones.
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I was just at NREL [National Renewable Energy Laboratory] and saw a demo of a new superconductive power cable, but could your nanocables leapfrog over that technology?
Making Paper That Can Stop Bullets
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A separate volume, leapfrogging the years?
Times, Sunday Times
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I have never lived alone, just been a sort of serial leapfrog monogamist who has finally come to rest.
Times, Sunday Times
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As ever, it leapfrogs the stand and lands at our frozen feet.
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A relatively obscure virtualisation system has leapfrogged better-known rivals.
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Sometimes attempts to leapfrog existing technology work out and the visionaries are hailed as geniuses.
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Accident victims can now reach hospital in a fraction of the usual time - by leapfrogging traffic jams with the ‘flying angels’.
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And if this demonstration could be done in a way that leapfrogged the competition, all the better.
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Packaging improvements and sales have been leapfrogging each other recently.
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But Goya is one of those artists who we feel speak directly to us, who leapfrogs the centuries to tell us urgent, timeless truths.
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Such figures represent a huge leapfrogging of rates formerly charged and need justifying in an economic recession.
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Indeed another win tomorrow and defeat for Selby could see Railway leapfrog their North Yorkshire rivals in the table.
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This happened because France leapfrogged Scotland after winning their own tournament, the final contest of last season, and gaining 20 points as a result.
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One problem was the logistics of moving two giant tents between locations — leapfrogging to keep pace with the schedule.
Times, Sunday Times
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We don't have to go there in linear fashion, we could leapfrog the technology stage.
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Mr. Kaplan says the best-seller status of Leapfrogging has become part of my position as a speaker and consultant.
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It is doubtful that the knowledge revolution will let developing countries leapfrog to higher levels of development, as many technologists and Internet evangelists assert.
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The Soyuz are kind of leapfrogged up there in order to always allow a speedy access to Earth, but they have a shelf life and so you have to get a new one up there every six months or so.
CNN Transcript Oct 19, 2001
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When implemented well, telemedicine may allow developing countries to leapfrog over their developed neighbours in successful health care delivery.
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Hundreds of leapfrogging woolly bundles later, you will be using your pillow as a punchbag.
The Sun
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New technology has allowed Democrats to "leapfrog" to e-mail solicitations and other online fundraising rather than develop a mailing list, Malbin says.
Parties pour 11th-hour cash into close races
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Bankruptcy -- or strong fear of being leapfrogged -- is the mother of invention and reinvention, whether in politics, academia or business.
To Stabilize The Economy, Fix The U.S. Dollar
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China has leapfrogged the world in pursuit of a low-carbon economy.
Kenny Ausubel: The Revolution Has Begun - "The Shift Hits the Fan"
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Deprived of our targeted audience, we started walking south, leapfrogging the police barriers, wondering if they'd play the game until we'd come to the city center about two miles to the south.
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Swiss regulators then leapfrogged ahead of other countries in demanding especially large capital cushions for UBS and Credit Suisse Group to protect the country's two megabanks.
Signs of Strain at UBS Investment Bank
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Back to the point, it has been leapfrogged by several other visualizers.
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This game of electoral leapfrog might be in the best interest of individual states, but it's destructive to the national interest.
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This helps explain why art history leapfrogged over New Criticism to postmodern doubt.
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They have leapfrogged the competition through adaptive strategies and ever-better product quality.
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Just a matter of months after Dance to the Music, Sly & the Family Stone turned around and delivered Life, a record that leapfrogged over its predecessor in terms of accomplishment and achievement.
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While the 46-year-old condemns the violence as a tragedy, his concern is for the future and the impact of the government's 10bn yuan pledge to ensure stability in the region through rapid, "leapfrog", economic development.
Xinjiang riots: one year on, Uighur and Han fears still run deep
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The team fans out and 'leapfrogs' itself several times over.
Denis Campbell: Mr. Cairns Goes to Westminster? UK Election Writ Small, Retail & Local
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Leicester were just one goal from leapfrogging them.
The Sun
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Instead, Egyptians, Tunisians and other peoples of the region fighting for revolutionary political and economic change have, without warning, leapfrogged over the United States and China and grabbed history's reins.
Mark Levine: History's Shifting Sands
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Many have leapfrogged transitional stages of development by adopting more advanced technologies.
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This led to a BBC News headline the likes of which we're never likely to see again: Leapfrogging mayor bruises tomato.
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Jugar a la pidola--That's "leapfrog" to you, David Beckham.
Real Madrid's Income Beats Glazer's Man Utd
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Snagging the rope that trailed from Eliot, Hunter hooked the free rope into his second locking karabiner so they could leapfrog going down.
SILENT TRUTH
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City won 2-1 to leapfrog Walsall and move back into 19th spot, still ten points clear of the bottom three.
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A constant process of leapfrogging takes place between industrial and post-industrial economies.
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It is already obvious that all four American systems have leapfrogged over the European versions.
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So when she gets into the job market, graduates younger than her are leapfrogging for positions.
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The team had overtaken the Italians but still failed to leapfrog the leading three.
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If they were bold enough to take on the legalisation of cannabis they would leapfrog beyond political triangulation.
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A constant process of leapfrogging takes place between industrial and post-industrial economies.
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The massive margin of victory recorded by Bridlington over Bolton Percy in no way reflected their close proximity in the league table where the coastal outfit leapfrogged their opponents after winning by 215 runs.
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While I'd seen my fair share of mediocre upper middle-class twits leapfrog their contemporaries, I really believed that the results-driven media game was largely a meritocracy.
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If we build highways across them, then the development simply leapfrogs the protected area.
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Once boys start wearing pants it becomes easier for them to stand on their heads, twirl on railings, straddle fences, play leapfrog, and walk on stilts.
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The idea is to run around doing the sort of stuff you used to see in the playground - hopscotch, tag and leapfrog.
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The loquacious narrator, Bruno, leapfrogs over anything Koko ever managed to pound out on his little keyboard.
Review of Benjamin Hale's 'Evolution of Bruno Littlemore': Aping human love
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Pointing out that there's still plenty of land available for such purposes within the GTA, critics suggest the province is caving to powerful interests in allowing development that "leapfrogs" over the protected
Thestar.com - Home Page
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They leapfrogged yesterday's opponents and are now sitting one place below the playoff positions.
Times, Sunday Times
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Packaging improvements and sales have been leapfrogging each other recently.
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Our tactic was "leapfrogging," or bypassing an enemy-held island to land troops on another, more lightly held island.
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Rather than develop compactly with gradually decreasing density, sprawl leapfrogs over developable land to further locations.
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Actually this was an amazing attempt at leapfrogging everyone.
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To kind of leapfrogs my one of my later questions right up to the forefront.
SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
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In other words it was leapfrogging the old when-to-invest-in-a-new-fab problem by buying additional existing capacity, doubtless at a discount, from a distressed rival.
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It is already obvious that all four American systems have leapfrogged over the European versions.
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If California wine continues to grow at this rate, the state could leapfrog over France in take-home wine sales, as Australia did.
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The company leapfrogged its rivals into a leading position.
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It is already obvious that all four American systems have leapfrogged over the European versions.
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It's called the leapfrog tick tock similar to the other phones that we tested for kids.
CNN Transcript Feb 4, 2006
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Institutional investors are demanding sector-by-sector comparative information on pay in an attempt to slow the leapfrogging nature of remuneration growth.
Times, Sunday Times
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UNESCO, in its report of the meeting of the Economic Commission for Africa held in Addis Ababa in May 1996, pointed out that technological innovations "have combined with changes facing global and national telecommunication regimes to present a clear window of opportunity for appropriate" leapfrog "strategies to accelerate the development of the continent".
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Trucks and cars were leapfrogging along the expressway.
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They've leapfrogged from third to first place.
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Two years Jacob's junior - in years as well as seniority - he had leapfrogged him as easily as if Jacob were a munchkin.
DEATH OF A NYMPH
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They were leapfrogged by Matlock Town, who won with goals in stoppage time of both halves.
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Its content stacks, too, making us leapfrog from an inner-city culture of liquor to an Asian culture of technophilia to a culture of cheap porn -- that turns out to be a culture of fine film, all presented in a photo taken by a second-generation immigrant immersed in a culture of art.
Gopnik's Daily Pic: Gems of FotoWeek DC
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American researchers have now leapfrogged the Japanese and are going to produce a digital system within a year or two.
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Despite being demoted down to fourth at the mid-way point, he soon reasserted his authority and leapfrogged back up to pole position.
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They leapfrogged yesterday's opponents and are now sitting one place below the playoff positions.
Times, Sunday Times
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Murray leapfrogged Robin Soderling to regain the No. 4 spot, and Williams re-entered the Top 10 despite health woes that have sidelined her since Wimbledon.
Masters Rookies Tend to Struggle
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He said it had built a portfolio of exclusive patents and hoped to leapfrog the next stage of the development of LCD, which is used in 80 per cent of flat panel displays.
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The bait: an opportunity for politicians-in-the-making to leapfrog into lofty party positions.
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You have, in a sense, (re) invented the “law review”, recasting it in the literal/movie sense of the term, and the consequences of this for the traditional players and hierarchy could be enormous, as JOTWELL could end up leapfrogging and superseding them entirely in multiple ways (authoritativeness, timeliness, etc.).
Discourse.net: Jotwell Reactions
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For one thing, varying the question order can result in certain questions being accidentally omitted, because the interviewer may forget to ask those that have been leapfrogged during the interview.
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The Leapfrog Group, a coalition of big corporate health-care purchasers, in 2009 began asking hospitals around the nation to report their rate of early term induced births that weren't medically necessary.
A Push for More Pregnancies to Last 39 Weeks
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The gardener must also go through all of the movements performed by the scamp, who may jump "leapfrog" over any player in the circle, turn somersaults, crawl between the legs of a circle player, double unexpectedly on his path, circle around one of the players, or resort to any other device for making the chase difficult.
Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium
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Victory would see Ancelotti's men leapfrog City into third place and would also maintain their outside hopes of retaining the championship but defeat would surely kill off their title chances and would also put qualification for next season's Champions League back in serious doubt.
WalesOnline - Home
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American researchers have now leapfrogged the Japanese and are going to produce a digital system within a year or two.
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It is already obvious that all four American systems have leapfrogged over the European versions.
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Key states play leapfrog in the skirmish for early primary dates.
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Two years Jacob's junior - in years as well as seniority - he had leapfrogged him as easily as if Jacob were a munchkin.
DEATH OF A NYMPH
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They certainly did not expect a choir most of them had never heard of to leapfrog them into third spot.
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The parallel ripples of the sea are leapfrogged by the sunset's cast of light, in which trawler-men mount the inshore rocks to deliver their catch to waiting market-women.
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Booking online can leapfrog both queuing for lift passes and organising tuition - while providing significant discounts.
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But it doesn't quite explain the absence of the book's structural ingenuity, especially its consistent narrative leapfrogging through time.
Times, Sunday Times
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Huddersfield's teamwork was matchless, their conviction unshakeable as they reduced their hosts to rubble while leapfrogging them into eighth spot.
Times, Sunday Times
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The news isn't good, he concedes, but the team has a strategy: sacrifice Microsoft's leading market position in Europe, the better to improve Money (and eventually "leapfrog" Intuit) at home.
Culture Club
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Quite often you find that you end up leapfrogging buses as they stop to pick up passengers.
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So today's announcement should be seen more as a game of catch-up than of leapfrog.
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However, if we assume that large enterprises become first adopters for SOA, and in so doing a market for services gets created, SMBs can leapfrog the whole inside-out process.
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Without a large and well-integrated base, any attempt to leapfrog by moving in unproven directions in technological growth can lead to long-term problems, even if there are some gains in the short term.
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New information and communications technologies, will become increasingly affordable as costs fall, thus helping developing nations "leapfrog" stages of development in setting up their own infrastructure.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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But we still managed to end up leapfrogging all the way.
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The first rider -- rider A -- is on the road, and three others are in what we call a "leapfrog car.
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