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Leverhulme

American  
[lee-ver-hyoom, -yoom] / ˈli vərˌhyum, -ˌyum /

noun

  1. Viscount William Hesketh Lever, 1851–1925, English soap manufacturer, originator of an employee profit-sharing plan, and founder of a model industrial town.


Leverhulme British  
/ ˈliːvəˌhjuːm /

noun

  1. William Hesketh, 1st Viscount. 1851–1925, English soap manufacturer and philanthropist, who founded (1881) the model industrial town Port Sunlight

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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She and fellow researchers at Cambridge's Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence will explore generative AI use and its impacts in a five-year research initiative funded by Virgin Media O2.

From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026

Further funding came from the US National Institutes of Health and the Leverhulme Trust.

From Science Daily • Oct. 26, 2023

Aviv Ovadya, a technologist and affiliate at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society and a visiting scholar at Cambridge University Leverhulme Center for the Future of Intelligence.

From New York Times • Dec. 9, 2022

Per Engzell, a researcher at Oxford University’s Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, says those weeks were a waste in terms of academic learning.

From Washington Post • Dec. 31, 2021

Mr. Lloyd George once remarked to me that the trouble with Lord Leverhulme is that he cannot work with other men.

From The Mirrors of Downing Street Some Political Reflections by a Gentleman with a Duster by Begbie, Harold

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