leverage
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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
It also would leverage existing resources to open up sources of revenue.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026
“That’s going to allow me to leverage relationships and know how to work together across jurisdictions to get things done.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026
That might sound like even more Chinese leverage, but the opposite is true.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
Don’t ask me where she found the strength, but she stepped in closer for leverage, their blades crossed, and for a moment she stood face-to-face with the Titan lord, holding him at a standstill.
From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan
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Financing the deal left Skydance highly leveraged, and the equity market’s signals have direct implications for debtholders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
Over those decades, tycoons have leveraged their fortunes to shape the state with their railroads, mines, newspapers, oil businesses and ranching and agriculture.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
Previously, Samantha reported on distressed debt at 9fin, where she covered liability management transactions and corporate restructurings in the leveraged finance and private credit markets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
"This is the first time we've leveraged the full volume of very rich information provided by an EEG recording to understand face perception and autism," McPartland says.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 28, 2026
In the wake of Hadiya’s death, Tina had leveraged her local contacts, encouraging Chicago business leaders and philanthropists to work with Mayor Rahm Emanuel to expand community programs for at-risk youth across the city.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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“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
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
There are going to be exceptions to the rule, but oftentimes you see even these candidates leveraging social media and talking policy in a different way.
From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2026
GM said it hopes to continue leveraging its capabilities for defense work, but didn’t specify any future projects.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 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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