This album's 11th-hour manifestation – even its uppercase title, BEYONCÉ, looked like someone jumping out from behind a bush with a klaxon – meant that it was too late for inclusion on most end-of-year lists, but as well as leapfrogging music critics, its release depended on precisely zero airplay, hinged on not one TV appearance, and was not even teased online.
It was as though my attraction to Jacob transcended the physical, as though we had leapfrogged into the realm of some "relationship future," where the initial buzz of electricity that two individuals feel disappears and all of the other stuff -- their mind and their character -- become the life-sustaining forces.
We're all dying inside as we watch Lou cleverly leapfrog his way past his peers in predominance by bypassing good taste and a moral code.
The DCMS select committee recently recommended lifting the cap on the number of FOBTs per shop as an "anti-clustering" measure, as bookies leapfrog regulations by opening up as many shops as possible, and usually in deprived areas.
What's going on in Africa heralds a historic transformation as households leapfrog from the pre-electricity era directly into the Third Industrial Revolution age.
With new digital art being created ever more rapidly, the debate over sustaining it will continue, just as surely as the technology leapfrogs ahead of it.
The hidebound health-care systems of the rich world may resist new technologies even as poor countries leapfrog ahead.
I then drew several straight lines that were unconnected but adjacent, that didn't so much branch as they did leapfrog.
And yet, in just a few short years, China's telecommunications progress came to define what we now describe as "leapfrogging" — pioneering the application of new technologies to bypass the older framework in place to unlock their 1.5 billion citizens' economic potential.
And, Tomii Crump, a Toys R UsUspokeswomanan, said the toy was selling just as well as LeapFrog's LeapPad did when it was introduced.
