as in used
to take unfair advantage of
a reality show contestant who's trying to leverage her 15 minutes of fame
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Recent Examples of leveraged
Researchers leveraged a combination of neurophysiological methods, inside and outside of an MRI scanner, with each participant.
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Brian Anthony Hernandez, PEOPLE, 14 Sep. 2025
To find an exoplanet, the most successful methods have leveraged examining the light from a star that might house them.
—Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 10 Sep. 2025
The company's technology is leveraged at several NBA training facilities.
—Chantz Martin, FOXNews.com, 9 Sep. 2025
His firm leveraged these credits as well as presales and distribution rights in pursuit of profit.
—Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2025
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Brian Anthony Hernandez, PEOPLE, 14 Sep. 2025
To find an exoplanet, the most successful methods have leveraged examining the light from a star that might house them.
—Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 10 Sep. 2025
The company's technology is leveraged at several NBA training facilities.
—Chantz Martin, FOXNews.com, 9 Sep. 2025
His firm leveraged these credits as well as presales and distribution rights in pursuit of profit.
—Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for leveraged
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Through a free mail-back scheme, customers return used heads in compostable mailers.—
Dianne Plummer,
Forbes.com,
20 Sep. 2025
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This blaze is intense enough that firefighters used water lines to moisten the soil around trees and wrapped their trunks with fire-resistant foil blankets.—
Kurt Snibbe,
Oc Register,
20 Sep. 2025
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Vulnerabilities in those systems have been exploited in high-profile attacks across DeFi.—
Tony Bradley,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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Jeffrey Breinholt, an architect of the material support statutes who spent three decades as a federal terrorism prosecutor, defends the laws as crucial to closing loopholes that were exploited by foreign militant groups and their domestic sympathizers.—
Hannah Allam,
ProPublica,
10 Sep. 2025
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In a bipartisan vote, 49 Republicans joined Democrats to repeal the authorizations, which members say have been abused to justify later military actions.—
David Sivak,
The Washington Examiner,
17 Sep. 2025
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The biggest Flock controversy centers on allegations that law enforcement has abused the company’s surveillance network to target women, immigrants, and people engaging in legal activity outside their home states.—
Jennifer Jolly,
USA Today,
14 Sep. 2025
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The sound of the tuning forks was then digitally manipulated to fit the pitch of the music and timed to match any moves the characters make.—
Joan MacDonald,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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Russia's Influence Operations in 2016, Russia conducted extensive campaigns during the presidential election, employing fake personas, troll farms, and manipulated content to inflame racial, ideological, and cultural divisions.—
Amir Daftari,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Leveraged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leveraged. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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