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lever

[lev-er, lee-ver] / ˈlɛv ər, ˈli vər /




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Cooper said a new Growth and Defence Partnership with the EU, would be the "single biggest growth lever we could pull" by deepening ties with Europe.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

“Memory-chip shortages and price inflation remain a critical lever behind industry growth upside,” Arya wrote, adding that he also sees “a brighter outlook” for makers of traditional and AI servers.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026

Just like war itself, polygraphs should be a lever of last resort.

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026

“Restricting exports is indeed a lever China can pull anytime, but it still entails economic costs,” said Tom Reed, head of oil market analysis at Argus Media, a price reporting agency.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026

He hit the broken lever against the wall.

From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Richard Hasen, professor of law at UCLA, outlines five levers the president could pull and how states, courts, and the people could respond.

From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026

Macron would also soon convene a video meeting of G7 leaders "to make progress on the various levers that can be used to address the rising fuel prices... including coordination on releasing reserves."

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

There are Oompa-Loompas of various sizes, including Rusty Goffe, from the 1971 film, who perform Oompa-Loompa dances and sing Oompa-Loompa songs and are seen offstage pushing buttons and pulling levers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

Three CMO-turned-CEOs say marketers who want to climb to the top job must master P&Ls, unit economics and growth levers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

He waved a hand at a series of levers.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi

“When you’re pulling rubber bands as hard as you’re pulling them” with levered ETFs, or other use of leverage to speculate, “things can get very ugly,” he said.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026

That includes more than 400 levered single-stock ETFs.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026

U.S. notional volume of levered ETFs is about $90 billion, up from almost nothing a decade ago, per Goldman Sachs data.

From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026

But a well-worked wrap-around move off first-phase ball, levered open a corridor of space for Breach to streak away to score and suck the life out the stadium.

From BBC ● May 17, 2026

Shoving back his baseball cap, Neves levered himself into the excavation site, a six-foot, rectangular hole with the right-angled corners and precisely vertical walls that are a hallmark of archaeological investigation.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

In that case, says Whitelaw, “maybe we should be telling young investors that they should actually be levering up, and that this is the tool to do it.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

Gerstner expressed concerns that investors are “layering up” right now, noting that “there are 14 exchange-traded funds launching on the day of the SpaceX IPO,” some of which are aimed at levering returns.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 8, 2026

If it is to play a game-changing role in levering in private investment, its £8.3bn funding over five years will have a lot of heavy lifting to do.

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2024

By employing bioinformatics analyses and levering diverse public datasets, the team validated the robustness of HK-CREs across 50 randomly selected healthy cell types, confirming the location of HK-CREs within the genome.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 5, 2024

The Abbot worked feverishly, resuscitating, levering and pounding the prone form of Matthias.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques




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