leverage

It’s called a disclaimer of interest—and it is a tactic other sports unions have used to try to gain leverage in labor negotiations for decades.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026

And he parlayed that leverage into a groundbreaking, fully guaranteed $84 million contract from the Vikings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026

Fully-automated Tuuci umbrellas leverage integrated heaters to provide shade from the sun or warmth during a chilly night.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 9, 2026

They used the measure as leverage to persuade the mayor and council to roll back the wage hike.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2026

If they considered me some sort of hero or holy man, it gave me useful leverage.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

Traders pointed to the billions of dollars sitting in leveraged exchange-traded products, which turbocharge exposure to the stock market.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

Binance said hackers then leveraged the engineer's compromised computer and a compromised internal AI tool in October to gain control over two other engineers' laptops, and execute the next steps of the attack.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

Late last month, a leveraged ETF that aims to provide a return of 300% of the daily swings of an underlying semiconductor index saw a record weekly inflow but continued to struggle.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026

Financing the deal left Skydance highly leveraged, and the equity market’s signals have direct implications for debtholders.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Morgan Stanley and Citigroup were now at 33:1, Goldman Sachs looked conservative at 25:1, but then Goldman had a gift for disguising how leveraged it actually was.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

“The supply-demand situation for buying businesses privately and leveraging them up has changed dramatically from what it was 10 or 20 years ago,” Buffett said in 2019.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

The company—whose nearly 2,800 customers include Canva, Dairy Queen and Equinox—will continue to build, leveraging Salesforce’s platform to innovate faster, Chief Executive and Co-Founder Bill Magnuson said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

There are going to be exceptions to the rule, but oftentimes you see even these candidates leveraging social media and talking policy in a different way.

From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2026

The measure is intended to streamline public works decision-making to improve city services and add new sources of revenue by leveraging existing resources such as underutilized city land.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Steve Eisman was odd in his conviction that the leveraging of middle-class America was a corrupt and corrupting event, and that the subprime mortgage market in particular was an engine of exploitation and, ultimately, destruction.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis