lever
Example Sentences
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"It gives us a new molecular lever -- and potentially a new set of tools -- for tackling these conditions."
From Science Daily • May 25, 2026
The final scene after almost 90 minutes featured Colbert and McCartney going to the light box of the theater and pulling the lever to “off.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026
The UK is a long, thin country that excels in the service sector, and connecting these sources of growth would lever in investment and create agglomeration effects that would help rebalance Britain's lopsided economy,
From BBC • May 19, 2026
Washington has a foreign-policy lever that costs almost nothing, earns interest and might have helped break up the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
He was already trying to climb up the shelves toward the lever.
From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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