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"Oil is the central economic lever," said Nino Lezhava, a fellow at the Washington-based Center for European Policy Analysis.

From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026

“Now they have an entirely different lever to pull to maximize profitability,” which is a positive development for their business.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026

This has eluded neuroscience for decades, but the introduction of a new class of drugs for weight loss may have given us just the lever we need to understand it.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026

The Black Sea, with its trade routes channeling both Russian and Ukrainian exports through the Bosporus to the rest of the world, has been a critical lever in the war before.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

A ticket machine spat out red slips to anyone who pulled its lever.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

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

On turning 18, people leaving care in England often lose "significant levers of support", the Government-commissioned report concluded, as it warned the so-called "care cliff" must be addressed.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 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

One of the only remaining levers available is in the hands of the American people.

From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026

Not yet thirty years old, with less than three years to learn the levers, Kim Jong Eun had no such advantage.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden

He cites a chart produced recently by Goldman Sachs which illustrated the “explosive growth” in levered exchange-traded funds.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026

“You’ve got people with a lottery mentality using margin to buy options on levered ETFs. That’s three or four layers.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

But a well-worked wrap-around move off first-phase ball, levered open a corridor of space for Breach to streak away to score and suck the life out the stadium.

From BBC ● May 17, 2026

“This is not, people who have taken their Treasury portfolio or their investment-grade portfolio and gone into levered lending,” he told analysts on Apollo’s first-quarter call.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 16, 2026

I brought my weight down on the rear-bar and pulled and rocked and levered the sledge back away from the edge of the crevasse.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

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

It might also help with levering in significant foreign investment at a crucial summit next month.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 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 person briefed on Muscat’s confession said Muscat alleges Alfred broke into the car by levering open the rear-quarter window passenger side.

From Reuters ● Nov. 28, 2019

Unfortunately for rational Jam, the figure continued to blatantly prove her wrong, levering one arm out and reaching down to the floor for stability, the gold claws carving small strips from the hardwood.

From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi