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Recent Examples of leveraging
China is also leveraging its vast thorium reserves, particularly in Inner Mongolia, to fuel this new generation of reactors.
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Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 6 Nov. 2025
Amazon is leveraging its grocery network, including Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods Market, to offer the meal bundle online, in-store and via same-day delivery in eligible areas.
—Diana Leyva, Nashville Tennessean, 5 Nov. 2025
Producer Jin Pai-lunn is leveraging the festival platform to court international collaborators and distributors.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 4 Nov. 2025
The intent, the company said, is to help employees with the transition into an increasingly digital world while also appropriately leveraging AI in the workplace.
—Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 4 Nov. 2025
The Art of You is the company’s strategic vision focusing on personalized experiences, leveraging customer data, new technology, and building stronger partnerships with brands.
—David Moin, Footwear News, 31 Oct. 2025
Beyond clusters and bookmarks, Vision AI lets designers build custom signals by leveraging their own data.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 Oct. 2025
Advertisement But while more efficient monetization of natural resources would provide a shot in the arm, the crux is leveraging that windfall to diversify the economy beyond extractive industries—futureproofing economies for when commodity prices drop.
—Charlie Campbell, Time, 30 Oct. 2025
The firm is looking at additional battery storage projects — potentially leveraging solar and wind energy — in Africa and Central Asia, Alobaidli said, declining to name specific partners.
—Kelsey Warner, semafor.com, 27 Oct. 2025
Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 6 Nov. 2025
Amazon is leveraging its grocery network, including Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods Market, to offer the meal bundle online, in-store and via same-day delivery in eligible areas.
—Diana Leyva, Nashville Tennessean, 5 Nov. 2025
Producer Jin Pai-lunn is leveraging the festival platform to court international collaborators and distributors.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 4 Nov. 2025
The intent, the company said, is to help employees with the transition into an increasingly digital world while also appropriately leveraging AI in the workplace.
—Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 4 Nov. 2025
The Art of You is the company’s strategic vision focusing on personalized experiences, leveraging customer data, new technology, and building stronger partnerships with brands.
—David Moin, Footwear News, 31 Oct. 2025
Beyond clusters and bookmarks, Vision AI lets designers build custom signals by leveraging their own data.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 Oct. 2025
Advertisement But while more efficient monetization of natural resources would provide a shot in the arm, the crux is leveraging that windfall to diversify the economy beyond extractive industries—futureproofing economies for when commodity prices drop.
—Charlie Campbell, Time, 30 Oct. 2025
The firm is looking at additional battery storage projects — potentially leveraging solar and wind energy — in Africa and Central Asia, Alobaidli said, declining to name specific partners.
—Kelsey Warner, semafor.com, 27 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for leveraging
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Privacy and partners Lenovo built Qira using a hybrid AI architecture.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
7 Jan. 2026
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Kansas City officials approved the initial funding for the temporary facility in October, using funds from the public safety sales tax.—
Ben Wheeler,
Kansas City Star,
7 Jan. 2026
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Amidst the ongoing privacy issues surrounding door cameras and the backlash over social media giants exploiting user data to train their own models, today’s robots invite both passive and active observers into our homes and leave our data exposed to bad actors.—
Jason Corso,
Fortune,
6 Jan. 2026
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For years, the debate around this issue has been quietly deadlocked between the forces for common sense reform to dramatically lower the cost of construction, and personal injury lawyers who reap increasingly large windfalls by exploiting this law.—
Elizabeth Crowley,
New York Daily News,
6 Jan. 2026
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The pair also pretended that Tammy was allegedly abusing them.—
Charlotte Phillipp,
PEOPLE,
9 Nov. 2025
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Archbishop Mitty product and San Jose native Aaron Gordon scored 18 while abusing Podziemski and other Warriors guards in the low post.—
Joseph Dycus,
Mercury News,
8 Nov. 2025
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Unlike conventional breaches that hinge on phishing or user error, this exploit, now known as EchoLeak, bypassed human behavior entirely, silently extracting confidential information by manipulating how Copilot interacts with user data.—
Hugo Huang,
Harvard Business Review,
9 Jan. 2026
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Disney is depicted as manipulating this framework to its benefit and to the detriment of Dish and its customers.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
6 Jan. 2026
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“Leveraging.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leveraging. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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