lever

As an American, I naturally vibe to the idea of a no frills, indestructible work truck/life-mate, a mighty lever of self-reliance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026

“Now they have an entirely different lever to pull to maximize profitability,” which is a positive development for their business.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026

This has eluded neuroscience for decades, but the introduction of a new class of drugs for weight loss may have given us just the lever we need to understand it.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026

“For Iran, the Strait of Hormuz has become a strategic lever for deterrence, maintaining the regional balance of power, and reshaping the security rules in the Persian Gulf,” said Mostafa Najafi, a Tehran-based security analyst.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026

He saw Emma scramble toward the lever, too.

From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

One of the only remaining levers available is in the hands of the American people.

From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026

With fleet renewal already set to continue through fiscal 2028, craft retirement is seen at Macquarie as one of the levers Qantas could pull.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

“If we see levers or a path that we believe would create superior value for our shareholders than executing our current strategy, we will, of course, carefully consider them,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026

"Changing anything about the menu, decor, or branding at this point is dangerous, so there are few levers to attract new customers," Pozner said.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

Not yet thirty years old, with less than three years to learn the levers, Kim Jong Eun had no such advantage.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden

Still, Goldman executives prized Situational, they told clients, though the bank monitored the fund because its portfolio was so concentrated and levered, according to a person familiar with the matter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

He cites a chart produced recently by Goldman Sachs which illustrated the “explosive growth” in levered exchange-traded funds.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 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

“The obsession with this very narrow corner of the market, this $2 trillion slice of levered lending, is, frankly, a failure of imagination,” Rowan sad.

From Barron's ● May 7, 2026

Forcing the spike in the hoop of the lock, Matthias levered away.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

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 person briefed on Muscat’s confession said Muscat alleges Alfred broke into the car by levering open the rear-quarter window passenger side.

From Reuters ● Nov. 28, 2019

Unfortunately for rational Jam, the figure continued to blatantly prove her wrong, levering one arm out and reaching down to the floor for stability, the gold claws carving small strips from the hardwood.

From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi