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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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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

The paper, published in Nature, was funded by the Leverhulme Trust.

From Science Daily Feb. 23, 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

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

He has done for Congo copper what Lord Leverhulme has accomplished for palm fruit and Thomas F. Ryan for diamonds.

From An African Adventure by Isaac Frederick Marcosson

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