How to Use leapfrog in a Sentence

leapfrog

1 of 2 noun
  • Gonna be playing leapfrog with the team below for the next two months.
    — Gabe Lacques, The Enquirer, 31 July 2023
  • Keep up this game of reverse leapfrog, and eventually death can’t catch you.
    — Jacqueline Detwiler, Popular Mechanics, 15 July 2021
  • The two have been playing leapfrog with the record all season long, something of which Trautman is aware.
    — Amie Just | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 10 Nov. 2020
  • The leapfrog move silenced a recession warning that had been ringing in the bond market, at least for now.
    — Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2020
  • There was an early botch on a leapfrog that seemed to drag this match down, especially with the crowd being mostly silent for it.
    — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2021
  • The support van leapfrogs the runners, providing rest and camaraderie for team members.
    — Stan Grossfeld, BostonGlobe.com, 10 May 2018
  • This is a leapfrog game as one after another keeps getting boosted because of a lack of supply with demand being so strong.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 2 Dec. 2025
  • The contractual leapfrog these quarterbacks perform with each and every new deal is tiresome.
    — Conor Orr, SI.com, 7 June 2019
  • How businesses run there—with an appetite for leapfrog growth, with digital and green serving for good—is a model that the rest of the world should follow.
    — Rachel Ooi, Forbes, 25 July 2022
  • Scientists have newly described three extraordinary species of tree toad that leapfrog over the egg-to-tadpole stage.
    — Mindy Weisberger, CNN Money, 13 Nov. 2025
  • For him, the leapfrog innovation of Silicon Valley is far preferable.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 28 Feb. 2018
  • There is no kayfabe benefit to reminding people that the champion struggles to string together leapfrogs.
    — Oliver Bateman, The Washington Examiner, 30 May 2025
  • Early episodes of the 10-episode season leapfrog around the country and the show’s general timeline to establish the stakes and sprawling cast of characters.
    — Caroline Framke, Variety, 31 Aug. 2021
  • Squeaky-clean cyber hygiene can ensure that attackers can't easily slip past or elude other security tools and leapfrog to another device.
    — Ofer Israeli, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2021
  • So, the lack of supply is pushing buyers and renters out, causing a leapfrog effect to smaller cities and towns in Southern Ontario according to Lierman.
    — Jennifer Castenson, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2021
  • His actors get hung out to dry, convincing neither in that steamy mode nor in their escalating multiple-personality acts, as the evil spirit plays leapfrog between different bodies.
    — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 26 Oct. 2023
  • My optimism is that BCI companies will rise to the occasion and leapfrog gaps in policy rather than letting their users boil in the waters of broken health coverage.
    — Naveen Rao, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
  • Find your leapfrog First of all, Apple didn’t create the first touchscreen, the first smartphone, the first MP3 player or the first personal computer.
    — Will Hall, Recode, 4 June 2018
  • With a system that learned from existing applications, Apple was able to deliver a product that felt like a leap forward for consumers while being a practical leapfrog for the company.
    — Sherzod Odilov, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Only about 15 percent of the population is fully vaccinated, and social inequalities have let the young rich leapfrog ahead of older, poorer people.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2021
  • ICOs resemble both a new form of crowdfunding, and a technological leapfrog over the regulations that hem in more orthodox funding strategies.
    — The Economist, 7 Oct. 2017
  • Some countries are highly digitized and made the leapfrog of digital transformation, like Sweden, Estonia, or Lithuania.
    — Uri Levine, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Artificial intelligence has resulted in leapfrog advances in other industries, such as healthcare, but unleashing its power requires a significant amount of data.
    — Suzanne Russo, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2021
  • But the tactics in this latest phishing campaign also reflect Nobelium's general practice of establishing access on one system or account and then using it to gain access to others and leapfrog to numerous targets.
    — Lily Hay Newman, Wired, 28 May 2021
  • With this network, India has shown on a previously unseen scale how rapid technological innovation can have a leapfrog effect for developing nations, spurring economic growth even as physical infrastructure lags.
    — Hari Kumar, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Following the suspect on the highway, the BRI played leapfrog, communicating by radio to manage the artful choreography of switching tails so no one car was behind the Algerian for too long.
    — John Miller, CNN Money, 19 Nov. 2025
  • For global companies, the leadership leapfrog is likely to accelerate, cementing shareholder activism as the decisive force in corporate governance—and the number of CEO heads rolling may soon set a new, even higher record.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The White House knew that without its leadership and facilitation, market forces alone would not meet the challenge of fast and efficient development, commercialization and use of a leapfrog technology—a pandemic-ending vaccine.
    — Michael Mina, Time, 10 Sep. 2021
  • Gene flow predicated on linguistic affiliation at such a remove seems implausible, so the most parsimonious explanation is that the Munda languages arrived in India from Southeast Asia as part of a leapfrog folk wandering.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 28 Oct. 2010

leapfrog

2 of 2 verb
  • Skipping his last two years of high school, he leapfrogged his classmates and went to college.
  • This year's technologies are leapfrogging last year's designs.
  • This is what leapfrogging looks like in practice.
    — Ilona Limonta-Volkova, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Defeat leaves them on 13 with eight teams ready to leapfrog.
    — Sukhman Singh, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Just like that, Roberson leapfrogged Wong for the lead.
    — Caroline Price, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2025
  • That’s a lot of bodies Sharpe must leapfrog for playing time.
    — oregonlive, 27 Sep. 2022
  • And the best way to get that track position is to leapfrog others on pit road.
    — Jordan Bianchi, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Texas has a chance to leapfrog New York on Wednesday.
    — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 6 Aug. 2025
  • The Sox would have to leapfrog four clubs to play in October.
    — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2022
  • The Royals would have to get on an epic hot streak to leapfrog at least three teams in the standings.
    — Kansas City Star, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The bulls' great hope is that earnings leapfrog the 2019 summits.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 1 Apr. 2021
  • Teams have been intrigued by his shooting and all around play, giving him a chance to leapfrog some bigger names.
    — Indystar Sports, The Indianapolis Star, 19 June 2023
  • Aiming to leapfrog the Jaguars, however, would be setting the bar far too high.
    — Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz, USA TODAY, 21 June 2023
  • Even with three wild-card spots, the Sox would have to leapfrog four teams over the final 40 games to sneak in.
    — Jason Mastrodonato, Hartford Courant, 22 Aug. 2022
  • There were eight 2-1 teams that could leapfrog the Blazers, Jazz and Nets.
    — Afentres, oregonlive, 13 July 2023
  • How did Texas leapfrog these juggernauts (and Georgia)?
    — Tim Genske, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Not long ago, technology was the big idea for enabling Africa to leapfrog its way out of poverty.
    — Declan Walsh, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Brightly lets Siemens leapfrog to the next level of performance for buildings.
    — Forbes, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Cristiano Ronaldo and Portugal, on four, could leapfrog it with a win.
    — Nbc News, NBC news, 28 June 2026
  • The Knicks need Joe Mazzulla’s squad to lose each game to leapfrog them in the standings.
    — Fiifi Frimpong, New York Daily News, 9 Apr. 2026
  • To her, the bill leapfrogs local jurisdictions just to nibble at the edges of what’s driving housing costs.
    — Mark Dee june 29, Idaho Statesman, 29 June 2026
  • That company could motor to file and try to leapfrog Anthropic this summer.
    — Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 2 June 2026
  • The country leapfrogged to the top spot this year after having come in 14th place in 2024.
    — Katie Nadworny, Travel + Leisure, 28 Oct. 2025
  • And a third, Zach Wilson, who is upset at being leapfrogged by Ewers.
    — Miami Herald, 21 Dec. 2025
  • Saldaña leapfrogged her Avengers costar Scarlett Johansson to take the top spot on the list.
    — Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Could Penn State leapfrog the Buckeyes and be the Wolverines’ biggest threat?
    — Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 3 May 2023
  • In the second run, Gu leapfrogged Great Britain’s Zoe Atkin into first place.
    — Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2026
  • And 2) is Meta leapfrogging Apple in smart glasses design?
    — Michael Bloom, CNBC, 18 Sep. 2025
  • In 1989, Senna needed to take first place to leapfrog Prost in the standings.
    — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2021
  • Getafe, meanwhile, could leapfrog its host with a shock win at the Camp Nou, having already banked two away wins from as many trips this term.
    — Kilty Cleary, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Sep. 2025

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