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“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

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

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

He said: "I'm determined to pull every single lever we can to provide people with some room to breathe on the cost of living."

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026

Since you can exert more force pulling and pushing on a lever than you can turning a crank, this is more efficient than a crank mechanism would be at lifting weights.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026

"Players are becoming their own distribution levers, with some in particular taking a driving seat in terms of 'how I project myself onto the world' and building their own channels and audience," explains Kyle.

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026

It is unclear what kinds of federal levers Trump could pull to intervene in a state tax law.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

“If we see levers or a path that we believe would create superior value for our shareholders than executing our current strategy, we will, of course, carefully consider them,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026

It is arguable that 2 + 2 will equal 4 in any universe; and, surely, levers and balances would work in the same way in any universe.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

The use of leverage, whether from margin debt, options trading or levered exchange-traded funds, all tends to be concentrated in the same stocks, he said.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 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

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

Shoving back his baseball cap, Neves levered himself into the excavation site, a six-foot, rectangular hole with the right-angled corners and precisely vertical walls that are a hallmark of archaeological investigation.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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

I had to stand with one foot planted on either side of the toilet seat, reaching up past my shoulders to boost myself up, as if levering my way out of a swimming pool.

From New York Times ● Aug. 28, 2013

The frustrated Stirling asked the workers to expose the back of the slab by digging beneath it and levering up the stone with poles.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann