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lever

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




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On one side goes lemon mayonnaise, our acid-fat lever: rich enough to keep the turkey lush, sharp enough to wake it up.

From Salon Jul. 30, 2026

The remaining 35% of idle capacity gives Meta an additional monetization lever.

From MarketWatch Jul. 1, 2026

“The yen carry trade is the global liquidity lever almost no one watches until it moves,” said Michael Gayed, portfolio manager of The Free Markets ETF.

From Barron's Jun. 30, 2026

The rare combination of off-grain fermentation and column distillation offers yet another lever to pull when it comes to modulating flavor.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 16, 2026

Through careful study, I discovered that it worked on a simple lever.

From "Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat" by Johnny Marciano and Emily Chenoweth

“If we see levers or a path that we believe would create superior value for our shareholders than executing our current strategy, we will, of course, carefully consider them,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 29, 2026

The American Petroleum Institute, the oil industry’s largest trade group, has publicly encouraged the administration to pull other levers.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 28, 2026

"Changing anything about the menu, decor, or branding at this point is dangerous, so there are few levers to attract new customers," Pozner said.

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

These are levers we can pull that change the math in our favor.

From MarketWatch Jul. 17, 2026

Gears, springs, levers, and rods were littered around it.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan

The use of leverage, whether from margin debt, options trading or levered exchange-traded funds, all tends to be concentrated in the same stocks, he said.

From MarketWatch Jul. 13, 2026

But a well-worked wrap-around move off first-phase ball, levered open a corridor of space for Breach to streak away to score and suck the life out the stadium.

From BBC May 17, 2026

“This is, people who have sold their equities to go into levered lending.”

From The Wall Street Journal May 16, 2026

“The obsession with this very narrow corner of the market, this $2 trillion slice of levered lending, is, frankly, a failure of imagination,” Rowan sad.

From Barron's May 7, 2026

He found the crutch and levered himself upright.

From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker

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

It might also help with levering in significant foreign investment at a crucial summit next month.

From BBC Sep. 23, 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

I had to stand with one foot planted on either side of the toilet seat, reaching up past my shoulders to boost myself up, as if levering my way out of a swimming pool.

From New York Times Aug. 28, 2013

The Abbot worked feverishly, resuscitating, levering and pounding the prone form of Matthias.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques




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