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lever

noun as in lifter

noun as in machine

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Lyons said he is "looking at all of the different levers" available to him to increase housing supply.

From BBC

Discovery another lever of power over its competitors.

From Salon

It has been an extraordinary run of attacks using levers of power that have been seen as sacred arbiters of the public trust for decades, scholars and historians say.

His all-American good looks couldn't be ignored: Redford was once described as "a chunk of Mount Rushmore levered into stonewashed denims".

From BBC

“As anime gains worldwide audiences, we can really lever off that and take advantage in many countries, not just one. It really travels very well.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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