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leverage

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


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He said there was now "a greater facility in tackling" the dungeon, as players can now easily change a critical in-game item known as heavy boots and have "the ability to leverage the camera orientation".

From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026

“His view, and I agree with this, is this is not an issue that you can leverage politically.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2026

BDCs that use leverage to boost returns can see amplified losses if credit risks increase which will cause net asset value to fall.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

Perpetual contracts on Hyperliquid offer up to 50 times leverage, well above the maximum levels allowed in the U.S.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026

No sense giving the enemy more leverage than they already had.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan

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

Traders making highly leveraged bets got crushed, but so did those who doubted a recent pullback in AI stocks would get worse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 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

“A leveraged investment in a business is going to beat an unleveraged investment in a good business a good bit of the time,” he added.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

The social disruption caused by the collapse of the savings and loan industry and the rise of hostile takeovers and leveraged buyouts had given way to a brief period of recriminations.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

Barri Worth Girvan, a veteran government employee who ran on a platform of leveraging her experience to advocate for residents, declared victory in the race for Los Angeles City Council’s Third District seat late Friday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2026

“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

Leapmotor is leveraging Stellantis’s manufacturing footprint in Spain, and Geely is targeting production at Ford’s Spain plant from 2028, Bernstein adds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 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

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


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