lever
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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
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“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
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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
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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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