leverage

"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

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 reports cataloged personal information and points of leverage that can eventually be exploited.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

He said he would seek to leverage tax dollars to help communities better prepare for wildfires, creating buffers and hardening structures because of wildfires that will inevitably occur in certain communities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

Does it give her some kind of leverage?

From "Allegiant" by Veronica Roth

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

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

The past decade-and-a-half have been a Golden Age for leveraged funds: Interest rates were at rock-bottom until recently, and stocks boomed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

Discovery shareholders by $7 million a day, so-called ticking fees that will heap more debt onto the highly leveraged transaction.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 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

Prosecutors accused Sung of leveraging the Sheriff’s Office’s rarely-issued gun permits to secure 200 iPads as well as a luxury suite for Smith and her friends at San Jose Sharks games.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

“With Lucid, you collect so much intelligent information from the car. And now here we are collecting information about the health of a member and leveraging that. There’s a lot of resemblances,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 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

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