leverage
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Former employees of the Perfect Child said the company’s high prices gave it leverage in negotiations with insurers, and while it didn’t join health-plan networks it often contracted to take single cases.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026
"It will give patients the leverage to say... 'it's in the name, what's happening to me is metabolic and endocrinological'," she said.
From BBC • May 31, 2026
Aggressive positioning shifts and heavy use of leverage — across options and ETFs, as well as individual stocks — have helped to turbocharge the market’s advance, according to McElligott and others.
From MarketWatch • May 28, 2026
In the United States, some employees with stock options have made it rich and retired early, while in Asia chip engineers are now using their "immense" leverage over companies to get their way, analysts say.
From Barron's • May 28, 2026
Wings flared and rabidly desperate insect legs dug into Ben’s palm for leverage.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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