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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
In addition to the NBA slate, your Novig discount can be leveraged across tonight's Major League Baseball action.
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Tyler Everett, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Mar. 2026
Both heavily influenced Biden’s bipartisan infrastructure law and the Build Back Better Act, centered on the economy and clean energy, though their powers were notably leveraged to the max under a 50-50 Democratic majority.
—Ramsey Touchberry, The Washington Examiner, 26 Mar. 2026
Turnaround is progressing well, it's positively leveraged to natural/organic growth & AMZN, upside to targets plausible, and the stock is cheap w/ a DD FCF yield.
—Michael Bloom, CNBC, 26 Mar. 2026
That law, which deals with balance-of-payments issues, along with Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act (currently being leveraged to levy duties on steel and aluminum) and Section 301 now make up the three legs of the trade policy stool.
—Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 25 Mar. 2026
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Tyler Everett, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Mar. 2026
Both heavily influenced Biden’s bipartisan infrastructure law and the Build Back Better Act, centered on the economy and clean energy, though their powers were notably leveraged to the max under a 50-50 Democratic majority.
—Ramsey Touchberry, The Washington Examiner, 26 Mar. 2026
Turnaround is progressing well, it's positively leveraged to natural/organic growth & AMZN, upside to targets plausible, and the stock is cheap w/ a DD FCF yield.
—Michael Bloom, CNBC, 26 Mar. 2026
That law, which deals with balance-of-payments issues, along with Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act (currently being leveraged to levy duties on steel and aluminum) and Section 301 now make up the three legs of the trade policy stool.
—Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 25 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for leveraged
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With Brooklyn’s injury list still swallowing half the rotation and the draft lottery picture tightening by the day, Liddell used Tuesday night as a personal argument.—
C.J. Holmes,
New York Daily News,
8 Apr. 2026
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The lawsuit claims that Missouri lawmakers used no rational basis to categorize which counties qualified for a 5% cap, a freeze or neither.—
Jenna Ebbers,
Kansas City Star,
8 Apr. 2026
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Other social welfare programs have safety valves to protect weak, incapacitated or disabled clients from being exploited by people in power.—
Carol Marbin Miller,
Miami Herald,
2 Apr. 2026
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Regardless of their work ethic, intellect and creativity, capital has always exploited them but never been willing to partner with them.—
Jacob Walthour,
New York Daily News,
2 Apr. 2026
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Kaley denied being abused or neglected, though Meta’s attorneys did show some Instagram posts about her mother screaming at her.—
Jeannie Suk Gersen,
New Yorker,
9 Apr. 2026
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Leah Juliett, also a survivor, still remembers the scarlet lockers at Wolcott High School where she was abused.—
Livi Stanford,
Hartford Courant,
8 Apr. 2026
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Additionally, advanced signal-processing techniques can help identify whether messages are genuinely coming from different sources or are being manipulated by a single malicious actor.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
6 Apr. 2026
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During this time, Duggar manipulated the victim’s underwear and grazed her genitals.—
Assistant Editor,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Apr. 2026
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“Leveraged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leveraged. Accessed 10 Apr. 2026.
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