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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
For this expression, Buzzard’s Roost leveraged its proprietary double oak approach to craft a bourbon that pairs perfectly with both a fine cigar and as an exceptional stand-alone pour.
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Gege Reed, Louisville Courier Journal, 3 Sep. 2025
Prior to the scandal, Cunningham had leveraged his military fame into a robust political profile.
—Theo Burman, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
Beijing has leveraged its sheer dominance of rare-earth minerals crucial for military and industrial use in its negotiations with Washington, maintaining a tight control on exports of the critical minerals.
—Anniek Bao, CNBC, 21 Aug. 2025
Under Cornell, Target’s stores have been leveraged to cut fulfillment costs for the mass merchant and bolster online sales, with the retailer fulfilling more than 96 percent of total sales in each of the last three years.
—Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 20 Aug. 2025
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Gege Reed, Louisville Courier Journal, 3 Sep. 2025
Prior to the scandal, Cunningham had leveraged his military fame into a robust political profile.
—Theo Burman, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
Beijing has leveraged its sheer dominance of rare-earth minerals crucial for military and industrial use in its negotiations with Washington, maintaining a tight control on exports of the critical minerals.
—Anniek Bao, CNBC, 21 Aug. 2025
Under Cornell, Target’s stores have been leveraged to cut fulfillment costs for the mass merchant and bolster online sales, with the retailer fulfilling more than 96 percent of total sales in each of the last three years.
—Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 20 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for leveraged
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Testing in a model plant The team added the McG cycle genes to Arabidopsis thaliana, a small weed often used in plant research.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
13 Sep. 2025
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The dating technique used on the eggs, known more formally as carbonate uranium-lead, or U-Pb, dating, is a common process for determining the age of carbonate minerals — those containing calcium, iron, manganese and magnesium.—
Mindy Weisberger,
CNN Money,
12 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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Trump claimed without evidence that McEntarfer had manipulated statistics for political reasons.—
Max Zahn,
ABC News,
11 Sep. 2025
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By the end of the episode, Isaac is dead, Nibs has had part of her memory wiped, and Slightly has been manipulated by Morrow into letting one of the face-huggers turn Arthur into a Xenomorph incubator.—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
9 Sep. 2025
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“Leveraged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leveraged. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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