leverage
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“And then, you’re getting into leverage like I was able to, and you can kind of let it go. So that’s kind of a product of all that.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026
“We’ve been here before and significant hurdles remain, with neither side willing to give up its leverage easily,” they said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
"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
Amazon has its own AI shopping agents, and other brands may try to step up their own agentic efforts through bots that leverage data and offer customers exclusive deals, Wlodarczak noted.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026
Armed with information, experts can exert a gigantic, if unspoken, leverage: fear.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
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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
Paramount has separately lined up debt financiers to help pull off the leveraged buyout of Warner Bros.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
Every once in a while, a leveraged fund gets completely wiped out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
The social disruption caused by the collapse of the savings and loan industry and the rise of hostile takeovers and leveraged buyouts had given way to a brief period of recriminations.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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Banks are expected to step up efforts to strengthen asset quality and recoveries while leveraging fee income to support revenue as net interest income remains modest, he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
“Critically, it also maintains the importance of California’s successful transfer pathway and encourages the CSU and community colleges to continue to work together, leveraging each other’s strengths to serve all students to the fullest.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 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
"In short, Samsung is leveraging its strong position in memory to aggressively capture share across most of its business units."
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
It made sense, Gus leveraging his terminality to make my dream come true: The sequel was a tiny thing to die for, but it was the biggest thing left at his disposal.
From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green
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