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Leverhulme

American  
[lee-ver-hyoom, -yoom] / ˈli vərˌhjum, -ˌjum /

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

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The study was produced as part of a £1 million Research Leadership Awards grant from the Leverhulme Trust.

From Science Daily Nov. 27, 2024

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

Prof Niamh Nic Daeid, director of the Leverhulme Research Centre for Forensic Science, said officers made a careful record of the crime scene.

From BBC Oct. 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

What I like about Leverhulme is his simplicity.

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

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