lever

Example Sentences

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One lever was low-reward -- mice needed six presses to get one drop of milk.

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026

Is Verstappen's threat to quit a lever to alter rules?

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

Last year it restricted rare-earth exports to Japan and used the threat of such restrictions as a lever against the U.S. before the two nations reached a truce.

From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026

Don’t be the one to pull that lever.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 13, 2026

The ancients knew a few of these equation-laws, like the law of the lever, but with the beginning of the scientific revolution these equation-laws sprang up everywhere.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife