fulcrum
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The No. 5 pick can add an immediate rotation player for the Clippers while also being a potential fulcrum for what experts consider one of the deepest draft classes ever.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2026
For national security professionals of my generation, 9/11 was the fulcrum in many of our professional and personal lives.
From Slate ● Apr. 21, 2026
Bonds have been making a comeback as weakness has hit tech stocks, which have long been the fulcrum point of this bull market.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 17, 2026
The fulcrum of the political year ahead isn't likely to be until Thursday 7 May.
From BBC ● Dec. 30, 2025
My father’s tribal rule had as its fulcrum the constant performing of rituals spanning the range of day-to-day living.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
They thus form movable fulcra to bodies acting upon them.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various
Fortune, especially in war, uses tiny fulcra for her powerful lever.
From The Story of the Malakand Field Force An Episode of Frontier War by Churchill, Winston
Fulcrate, having accessory organs or fulcra, i. e. props.
From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa
It comprises the potentials of shoulders and spinal column which are fulcra of action, and of lungs and heart which are the energising organs of Life.
From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Kenealy, Arabella
As many men as there is room for stand on each side of the block, and with levers resting on beams or stones as fulcra, raise the stone vertically as far as possible.
From Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders by Peet, T. Eric (Thomas Eric)
Lift with some danged pulley system involving fulcrums and levers and inclined planes, or, better yet, just hire some dumb lunk.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 16, 2019
Speaking on Sky Sports, swing coach Butch Harmon paid a fulcrums tribute to the European squad.
From Golf Digest ● Sep. 30, 2018
Samba schools are social clubs, really, fulcrums of community spirit tucked deep into a neighborhood, many in ramshackle favelas.
From New York Times ● Jan. 27, 2016
Our musculoskeletal system works in a similar manner, with bones being stiff levers and the articular endings of the bones—encased in synovial joints—acting as fulcrums.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
The two men adjusted the boulders they had set for fulcrums and shoved down on the stout pieces of ash, their muscles bunching, the veins standing out corded on their arms.
From Rimrock Trail by Dunn, J. Allan, (Joseph Allan)
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"Rogue Wave," Vocabulary from the short story
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