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leverage

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


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“And then, you’re getting into leverage like I was able to, and you can kind of let it go. So that’s kind of a product of all that.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026

Investors wary of CoreWeave’s leverage levels may be overlooking the safeguards built into the company’s financing structures, Keirstead continued.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

"The US may lead at the frontier, while China could still gain enormous economic and geopolitical leverage by making capable AI cheap, open and ubiquitous."

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

He understood military power and negotiating leverage, but he also knew that diplomacy can’t succeed if governments believe promises are merely words to be discarded when they become inconvenient.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

She couldn’t drop down into the water for leverage.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers

Of course, they are not billionaires like Oprah or celebrities like Gwyneth Paltrow or Reese Witherspoon, who leveraged their pre-existing stardom into profitable imprimaturs in wellness and publishing.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

The rise of short-dated options and leveraged ETFs has helped to supercharge the gap between the winners and losers in the stock market.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

The bank’s dealmaking team would see weaker leveraged finance activity, the CFO says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

According to football finance expert Kieran Maguire, this sum alone has now exceeded £1bn since the leveraged Glazer family buyout in 2005.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 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

"It comes through shared digital memory. YG Entertainment was early in leveraging digital platforms like YouTube, which built a lasting global fan foundation that has accumulated across two generations."

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

“Critically, it also maintains the importance of California’s successful transfer pathway and encourages the CSU and community colleges to continue to work together, leveraging each other’s strengths to serve all students to the fullest.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

"But now, along with more spending power, there is improved access, distribution and product education. The internet broke these barriers, with brands leveraging the power of social media platforms and influencers to reach consumers directly."

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

She returned to “Today” on April 6, determined to solve her mother’s abduction by leveraging her TV fame and coast-to-coast reach—the same lofty platform she worried might have drawn the attention of Nancy’s kidnappers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 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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