lever
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“The workforce restructuring program is an important lever for this.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
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
I pop the last four chicken nuggets into the toaster and jiggle the broken lever until it stays in the down position.
From "The Benefits of Being an Octopus" by Ann Braden
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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
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
As the Federal Reserve weighs an interest-rate rise today, businesses are pulling their own economic levers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 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
Pollux finds a small, warm room humming with machines loaded with levers and dials.
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
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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
That includes more than 400 levered single-stock ETFs.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026
U.S. notional volume of levered ETFs is about $90 billion, up from almost nothing a decade ago, per Goldman Sachs data.
From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026
She burned with questions, but Mona picked up her staff and levered herself to her feet.
From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo
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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
If it is to play a game-changing role in levering in private investment, its £8.3bn funding over five years will have a lot of heavy lifting to do.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 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
The frustrated Stirling asked the workers to expose the back of the slab by digging beneath it and levering up the stone with poles.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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