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lever

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




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“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

The EA said it was "pulling every lever available" to "disrupt those who profit from the harm illegal waste sites cause".

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

“Restricting exports is indeed a lever China can pull anytime, but it still entails economic costs,” said Tom Reed, head of oil market analysis at Argus Media, a price reporting agency.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026

If you pull on the lever attached to the right of the winch assembly, one wheel grips and turns the axle, which lifts the weight.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

Three CMO-turned-CEOs say marketers who want to climb to the top job must master P&Ls, unit economics and growth levers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

Knight-Swift and XPO “got a couple idiosyncratic levers that they’re pulling and that I don’t think others have,” he said.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026

"Body weight responds to two levers: taking in fewer calories, or spending more energy," said Anders Näär, a professor of metabolic biology and nutrition at UC Berkeley and senior author of the study.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026

It steered with two levers, like a very small bulldozer, and looked more like a toy than a mower.

From "Lawn Boy" by Gary Paulsen

Still, Goldman executives prized Situational, they told clients, though the bank monitored the fund because its portfolio was so concentrated and levered, according to a person familiar with the matter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

“When you’re pulling rubber bands as hard as you’re pulling them” with levered ETFs, or other use of leverage to speculate, “things can get very ugly,” he said.

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

He’s also worried about how levered exchange-traded funds, particularly those based on single stocks, could cause problems for markets.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 10, 2026

His cast scraped along the rough rock face, but his arms were strong from Vola’s training, and he levered himself onto a shallow foothold.

From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker

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

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques




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