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lever

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




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He said he recalled having pulled the lever to release the car's parachute before trying to steer it away from disaster, "but disaster was, it seemed, my fate".

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

"Oil is the central economic lever," said Nino Lezhava, a fellow at the Washington-based Center for European Policy Analysis.

From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026

Some people have taken this as proof that she herself was Quaker, but the real story is more complicated—and it shows that Elizebeth was willing to use every lever to get an education.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

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

“Until we see changes in both of those levers, prices are likely to stay elevated,” Bonner said at a dinner for financial and sustainability officers that coincided with the United Nations General Assembly.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 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

On turning 18, people leaving care in England often lose "significant levers of support", the Government-commissioned report concluded, as it warned the so-called "care cliff" must be addressed.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

Borelli treated the body as a system of levers acted on by the forces exerted by the muscles, and analysed geometrically how muscles in the human body acted in walking and running.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin

The UBS team just shared 14 of their “highest-conviction calls” within those sectors, many of which are levered to AI and the idea that there’s plenty of money floating around the broader ecosystem.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026

As Michael Sapir, chief executive of ProShares, told me this week, “No one should invest their entire life savings in a levered investment.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

“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

One popular technique is levered long-short tax-loss harvesting, a strategy that uses margin and leverage to significantly boost the volume of harvestable tax losses.

From Barron's ● Jun. 13, 2026

Redemption dragged the bench over and levered half of it so it was at a right angle, a narrow L. Pet lifted Hibiscus easily with one hand and deposited him in the seat.

From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi

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

It might also help with levering in significant foreign investment at a crucial summit next month.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 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

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




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