as in using
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 leveraging
Materia is a functional and inclusive fashion brand that merges aesthetics with accessible design, leveraging adaptive constructions and ergonomic design principles.
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Andrea Onate, Footwear News, 28 May 2026
The agent intends to finish its job, leveraging the path of least resistance.
—Shreyans Mehta, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
Roblox also makes other players’ inventories visible, leveraging children’s tendency toward social comparison, the complaint read.
—Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 20 May 2026
Congressional Democrats are accusing Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr of leveraging merger reviews and broadcast licensing decisions to push companies to scrap diversity initiatives, raising alarms about political pressure inside a powerful independent regulator.
—Jessica Guynn, USA Today, 15 May 2026
Andrea Onate, Footwear News, 28 May 2026
The agent intends to finish its job, leveraging the path of least resistance.
—Shreyans Mehta, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
Roblox also makes other players’ inventories visible, leveraging children’s tendency toward social comparison, the complaint read.
—Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 20 May 2026
Congressional Democrats are accusing Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr of leveraging merger reviews and broadcast licensing decisions to push companies to scrap diversity initiatives, raising alarms about political pressure inside a powerful independent regulator.
—Jessica Guynn, USA Today, 15 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for leveraging
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The reforms would also require some facilities to assess the feasibility of using safer technologies or processes in their work, among other changes.—
Evan Bush,
NBC news,
30 May 2026
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Zeferjahn had struggled earlier in the season, when the Angels were using him for multiple innings.—
Jeff Fletcher,
Oc Register,
30 May 2026
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Cybersecurity companies are in the middle of a significant inflection, spurred by Anthropic's Mythos model and the rise of autonomous AI agents that are capable of exploiting vulnerabilities faster than ever before.—
Samantha Subin,
CNBC,
29 May 2026
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But Ava’s flourishing is also part of Deborah’s legacy, as a boss who has (mostly) stopped exploiting her employees and started supporting them—going so far, at the end of Season 4, as to choose her writing partner over her talk show.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
29 May 2026
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The rollout of some of these technologies has been quick, and departments are beginning to confront the risks of abusing the technology and changing the way laws are enforced.—
Noah Daly
Updated June 1,
Idaho Statesman,
1 June 2026
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Many files included women abusing children, police say.—
Milena Malaver,
Miami Herald,
29 May 2026
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Unlike vision-only systems, Atlas relies heavily on proprioception—internal sensing of body position, load, balance, grip, and resistance—while manipulating objects.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
27 May 2026
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The Zapatistas, considered the first informational guerrilla movement, used hacktivism, or manipulating computer systems or networks to promote a political ideology or social change.—
Paulo Nuno VicenteAll,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
26 May 2026
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“Leveraging.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leveraging. Accessed 3 Jun. 2026.
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