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leverage

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


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Monaghan attributed the day-to-day volatility to hedge funds trading with high leverage and tighter risk limits.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026

"The company intends to leverage the momentum generated by its workforce restructuring program to expand its organizational and process realignment more quickly," it said.

From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026

BDCs sometimes trade at discounts or premiums to their net asset value and often at discounts because many use leverage to boost returns.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

The common denominator has often been tech leaders at helms with enough leverage to dictate such terms to eager investors motivated by FOMO.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

Wings flared and rabidly desperate insect legs dug into Ben’s palm for leverage.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

Traders making highly leveraged bets got crushed, but so did those who doubted a recent pullback in AI stocks would get worse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

Big-money tycoons have leveraged their fortunes to shape the state with their railroads, mines, newspapers, oil businesses and ranching and agriculture.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026

Binance said hackers then leveraged the engineer's compromised computer and a compromised internal AI tool in October to gain control over two other engineers' laptops, and execute the next steps of the attack.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

Late last month, a leveraged ETF that aims to provide a return of 300% of the daily swings of an underlying semiconductor index saw a record weekly inflow but continued to struggle.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 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

“The supply-demand situation for buying businesses privately and leveraging them up has changed dramatically from what it was 10 or 20 years ago,” Buffett said in 2019.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

McKinney has focused his campaign on lessening the city’s homelessness crisis by leveraging people into treatment, tackling quality-of-life crimes, and reducing the city’s out-of-control legal costs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

“All this underpins my conviction that we are better positioned than ever to win in the long run, leveraging AI to augment the strengths of the L’Oreal model,” Hieronimus said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

YouTube relies primarily on an ad-supported model, whereas Amazon is leveraging free live access to draw massive global audiences into its wider ecosystem.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 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


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