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An example use of leather in a speech by a native speaker of american english:
“… and i wore a leather jacket for so long …”
Leather is a type of animal skin that is tanned and processed for use as a durable and flexible material.
the word leather occurs in english on average 24.6 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.
it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that leather can be often used in the following areas:
1) life, nature, and living environment;