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levered

  • past participle of lever.
  • past tense form of lever.

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“When you’re pulling rubber bands as hard as you’re pulling them” with levered ETFs, or other use of leverage to speculate, “things can get very ugly,” he said.

From MarketWatch Jul. 9, 2026

One popular technique is levered long-short tax-loss harvesting, a strategy that uses margin and leverage to significantly boost the volume of harvestable tax losses.

From Barron's Jun. 13, 2026

But a well-worked wrap-around move off first-phase ball, levered open a corridor of space for Breach to streak away to score and suck the life out the stadium.

From BBC May 17, 2026

“This is, people who have sold their equities to go into levered lending.”

From The Wall Street Journal May 16, 2026

With a swift movement he levered the fourth step an inch forward, exposing a long dark gap.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques