as in to pry
to raise, move, or pull apart with or as if with a lever
the workers used crowbars to lever the heavy stone block into its new position
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Recent Examples of lever
John Liu, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025
De minimis began as a modest tax provision, but has widened to become a fixture of e-commerce — and a trade policy lever.
—semafor.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Jim Cramer, CNBC, 14 Aug. 2025
Enter bitcoin treasury companies – a new wave of public equities seeking a far more explicit and truly levered connection to bitcoin’s price.
—Edan Yago, Forbes.com, 31 July 2025
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Verb
But even from afar, Washington still holds key levers of power.
—John Liu, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025
De minimis began as a modest tax provision, but has widened to become a fixture of e-commerce — and a trade policy lever.
—semafor.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Noun
What else is new when you’re levered to China and charge more than anyone else?
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 14 Aug. 2025
Enter bitcoin treasury companies – a new wave of public equities seeking a far more explicit and truly levered connection to bitcoin’s price.
—Edan Yago, Forbes.com, 31 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lever
Noun
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Having sat with Jones in their home studio, Ronson understood the language of digital sound meters, tape machines and knobs and faders, as well as the importance of reading the room.—
Melissa Ruggieri,
USA Today,
18 Sep. 2025
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The third knob is paleogeography.—
Peter Brannen,
Quanta Magazine,
15 Sep. 2025
Verb
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What lingers are the fragments that weren’t rehearsed, a voice breaking, a note pulled from the back of a notebook, a chant that filled the room, a line spoken more to a spouse than to the cameras.—
Vibhas Ratanjee,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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Bolt-action rifles, prized for reliability, require the operator to pull the trigger for one round before manually chambering another round.—
Eduardo Cuevas,
USA Today,
14 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Remove the old blades and replace the pair First, press on the release button, which is normally where the arm and the blade connect.—
Keenan Thompson,
USA Today,
18 Sep. 2025
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Unlike the Oakley Meta HSTN glasses, the new model contains a button on the underside of its frames so that athletes who wear helmets can more easily capture photos and videos.—
Jonathan Vanian,
CNBC,
18 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Girls soccer Jaydin Simpson scored the lone goal in the first half to lift Beverly (5-2-1) to a 1-0 Northeastern Conference win over Peabody.—
Tyler McManus,
Boston Herald,
20 Sep. 2025
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The late offense lifted the hottest team in baseball to its eighth-straight victory.—
Betsy Helfand,
Twin Cities,
20 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The aforementioned head also has lights, with batteries included, and a tiny switch behind the neck.—
Ollie Barder,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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Keep an eye on October 19 as a possible date for that switch.—
Evan Massey,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Everything about Baldwin’s style is too much; often one feels, in his diction, his elaborate, Jamesian syntactical structures, his sudden shifts of tone, that if the English language has a volume dial that goes up to ten, Baldwin is hot-wiring a go-around to push it to eleven or twelve.—
Garth Greenwell,
Harpers Magazine,
19 Sep. 2025
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Zuckerberg also demonstrated how the glasses can play music, with the volume adjustments made by mimicking the turning of a circular dial.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
18 Sep. 2025
Noun
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And while some are overtly designed for traditional smoking purposes, more subtle iterations can double (and triple) as statement art pieces or decorative trays to hold loose change, keys, and jewelry.—
Audrey Lee,
Architectural Digest,
19 Sep. 2025
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In sum, tech companies build a walled garden, lock you in, throw away the key, let the plants die, and then charge you an extortionate rent to live among the rotting remains.—
Dan Piepenbring,
Harpers Magazine,
19 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Titleist makes excellent balls at all price points, and the range is so varied and options so complex that the company has a very useful ball selector tool on its website to guide you through.—
Larry Olmsted,
Forbes.com,
27 Aug. 2025
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They were whittled down to the final 26 players by a panel of selectors.—
Peter Carline,
New York Times,
21 Aug. 2025
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“Lever.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lever. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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