lever

Example Sentences

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For many filmgoers though, he was simply the best-looking cinema star in the world - once described as "a chunk of Mount Rushmore levered into stonewashed denims".

From BBC

The rocket is lit using an oversized lever designed to look like a “Looney Tunes” version of a TNT detonator.

From Salon

China's reaction to the military takeover was initially muted, but the explosion of internet scam centres along the China-Myanmar border threw a lever.

From Barron's

To test this idea, the researchers monitored brain activity in mice while the animals pressed a weighted lever.

From Science Daily

"The French do not expect from the Macron leadership that it dismembers our overseas territories behind their backs," she said, describing the territories as "true levers of power, influence and economic development".

From Barron's