lever
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“Memory-chip shortages and price inflation remain a critical lever behind industry growth upside,” Arya wrote, adding that he also sees “a brighter outlook” for makers of traditional and AI servers.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
Just like war itself, polygraphs should be a lever of last resort.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026
"This is a lever to have a discussion about privacy, personal rights, control over my data."
From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026
The EA said it was "pulling every lever available" to "disrupt those who profit from the harm illegal waste sites cause".
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
Lala kicks a lever, unleashing a ramp that extends from the body of the ship to the ground.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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"Diet is one of the most powerful, modifiable levers we have in medicine, and this study gives us a molecular framework to start using it more precisely."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026
What we are seeing is different levers - both military and economic - that the US is trying to pull at.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
“These kinds of levers by themselves may not be the most effective tools,” said Arnold, who is now at the Royal United Services Institute, a London think tank.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
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
They arrange themselves at four corners around me, unlatch the hitches, grip the levers jutting from the sides of my glass ball, and lift me off the wheeled bottom like I'm only a soap bubble.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
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The UBS team just shared 14 of their “highest-conviction calls” within those sectors, many of which are levered to AI and the idea that there’s plenty of money floating around the broader ecosystem.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 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
One popular technique is levered long-short tax-loss harvesting, a strategy that uses margin and leverage to significantly boost the volume of harvestable tax losses.
From Barron's ● Jun. 13, 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
He levered up the grate beneath it with one hand, then reached in with the other and pulled out a bag covered with soot.
From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley
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In that case, says Whitelaw, “maybe we should be telling young investors that they should actually be levering up, and that this is the tool to do it.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
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
If it is to play a game-changing role in levering in private investment, its £8.3bn funding over five years will have a lot of heavy lifting to do.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 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
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
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