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• v  cause to puff up with a leaven
  unleavened bread
• a  made light by aerating, as with yeast or baking powder; often used as a combining form
  leavened bread
  well-leavened
  yeast-leavened breads

• Massoud's Islam was a moderate kind of fundamentalism leavened by tolerance for others.
• For one week during Passover, observant Jews refrained from any leavened bread product (meaning, anything made from dough that is able to rise), replacing it with irregularly .
• Aerocrete, a light concrete building material which rises like leavened bread, has passed the fire, load and water tests required of flooring materials in New York, it was .

• raise
• leaven
• prove

• unleavened

News & Articles

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• Mardi Jo Link - Tales of pilfering wood, eating roadkill
  There might be something rural or at least Midwestern in my reaction to memoirs. I enjoy reading them, but unless they are leavened by a self-deprecating wit I get bored very quickly. If the authors can't laugh at themselves, just a time or two, I find myself wondering about their humanity. Mardi Jo...
  June 15, 2013 - Ann Arbor Observer

Quotes

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• Marc Racicot in WCNC (subscription)
  While everyone recognizes national security concerns are implicated when the government investigates terrorism within our nation's borders, such concerns should be leavened with common sense so as not forever to trump the rights of the citizenry... Richard J. Cardamone http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_J._Cardamone&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNF_IYVPsMd68VsIy5HEab_Cck2_gQ W*USA 9 http://www.google.com/url?q=http://wusa9.com/news/news_article.aspx%3Fstoryid%3D49668&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHpcKFxlKjRddsa9mVF3cCQvZc3-w May 24, 2006 57431 76312 leavened Assessing all the debates combined, Racicot said Kerry did provide himself some temporary assistance with the first debate that got more leavened in the second debate and then began to dissipate at a whatever unknown rate with last night's...
• Joan Burton in Irish Times
  Labour's finance spokeswoman Joan Burton said the plan amounted to "100 pages of stale reheats, leavened with vague aspirations" and she called for action instead. "There is no leadership, and little action."