fulcrum
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Now it is the fulcrum of Iran’s leverage in a strategy of “asymmetric warfare.”
From Slate ● Jul. 15, 2026
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
He experienced Scottish Cup glory with Alan Stubbs, but his game went to a new level under Neil Lennon, who described McGinn as "the fulcrum" of his team.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 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
His forefinger felt where the handle of his sword would use it for a fulcrum.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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 Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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
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
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
For about three-fifths of the entire length of the animal the surface was unprotected by dermal plates; and the muscles must have found the fulcrums on which they acted in the internal skeleton exclusively.
From The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland by Symonds, W. S. (William Samuel)
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