fulcrum
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The fulcrum of the owners’ position is the principle of “competitive balance,” meaning that every team should have comparable resources for mounting a playoff campaign.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 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
“At this point, we are laser focused on the fulcrum question going forward: how effective are Iran’s drones?”
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 28, 2026
JJBs, established in 2000, don't function in isolation but are the fulcrum of a network comprising child-friendly services including sensitised police units, legal aid services and rehabilitation centres.
From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2026
His thumb knew the exact weight in ounces which it would have to exert on the near side of the fulcrum.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
Positioned as they are, between the bifurcations of the suspensory ligament and the pastern joint, they serve as fulcra and effectively assist in minimizing concussion which is received by the suspensory ligament.
From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by John Victor Lacroix
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 Winston Churchill
The former two are supposed to constitute the living tissue of the State; the latter are the fulcra and resistances, the bone and cover of its body.
From A Modern Utopia by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
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 Arabella Kenealy
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
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
They make beams, spars, sills, fulcrums and what not from me that require strength.
From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 43rd Annual Meeting Rockport, Indiana, August 25, 26 and 27, 1952 by Northern Nut Growers Association
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