How to Use leveraged in a Sentence

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• Lee was one of the leaders in the use of leveraged buyouts, or LBOs.
  — Chris Isidore, CNN, 24 Feb. 2023
• The deal would have been one of the largest leveraged buyouts in recent years.
  — Bob Tita, WSJ, 22 Jan. 2019
• Right now, the default rate on leveraged loans is very low: a measly 1.42%.
  — Larry Light, Fortune, 29 Dec. 2019
• The cloud play would be the biggest leveraged buyout in months.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2022
• The bears assert that Hong Kong’s economy is the most leveraged in the world.
  — John Greenwood and, WSJ, 24 June 2019
• Trump leveraged celebrity and perceived wealth to the White House.
  — Time, 25 Aug. 2023
• This opened a new pipeline for Robert Hetu and his team of leveraged loan makers.
  — Christopher Leonard, Fortune, 22 Nov. 2021
• The deal is the latest sign that the market for leveraged buyouts is heating up.
  — Miriam Gottfried, WSJ, 1 Nov. 2020
• The deal was an early example of the 1980s wave of leveraged buyouts.
  — James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 26 May 2023
• Those in the industry point out that not all leveraged products are duds.
  — Spencer Jakab, WSJ, 29 June 2018
• Credit Suisse arranged the leveraged loans, but never meant to keep a lot of them.
  — Christopher Leonard, Fortune, 22 Nov. 2021
• The high-yield corporate debt market is dead in the water, and the leveraged loan market isn’t much better.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 19 Dec. 2018
• With Smith gone, younger relievers will get more leveraged roles.
  — Henry Schulman, SFChronicle.com, 9 Dec. 2019
• McWilliams pointed out that most leveraged loans are held outside of the banking system.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 2 Aug. 2019
• In most leveraged buyout deals, companies have large and steady cash flows.
  — New York Times, 19 Apr. 2022
• Southwest has tapped the bond market three times this year, while JetBlue raised $750 million from a leveraged loan sale.
  — Bloomberg Wire, Dallas News, 15 June 2020
• Some of the trades on Pancake Swap are like 10x leveraged bets in a traditional market.
  — Kenneth Rapoza, Forbes, 6 June 2021
• UberEats leveraged customer feedback to get to the heart of real-time sentiment.
  — Forbes, 20 May 2021
• The retailer’s debt load stemmed from its 2005 leveraged buyout.
  — Lillian Rizzo, WSJ, 18 July 2018
• Long-term, the Giants need to see if Rogers can get those groundballs in leveraged situations.
  — Henry Schulman, SFChronicle.com, 12 Aug. 2020
• Making matters worse are the leveraged funds of funds that compound returns only if prices rise.
  — John S. Tobey, Forbes, 15 June 2022
• Libor was still viable until the end of the year, and some bankers continued to use it to make leveraged loan deals into its final hours.
  — New York Times, 12 Jan. 2022
• Banks are the biggest holders of leveraged loans, with more than 40% of the market on their balance sheets, according to FSB data.
  — John Detrixhe, Quartz, 7 Jan. 2020
• Vision Fund 2 is leveraged, and most of its investments are still private.
  — Eliot Brown, WSJ, 2 Aug. 2022
• Many, like Neiman Marcus and J. Crew, are struggling to pay back billions of dollars from leveraged buyouts.
  — Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2020
• Borrowers also tend to be half as leveraged, and funds themselves seldom carry any debt (many do in the West).
  — The Economist, 21 June 2019
• Wrong-way leveraged bets on interest rates and the Brazilian currency are to blame, as well as Brazil’s stock tumble.
  — Vinicius Andrade, Bloomberg.com, 14 June 2020
• Justin Sun, an advisor to Huobi, blamed the fall on leveraged trades being unwound.
  — Elaine Yu, WSJ, 10 Mar. 2023
• Over the next few decades, what was then called the leveraged buyout industry moved into other sectors.
  — Keren Landman, Vox, 3 Oct. 2024
• Private equity has followed a rocky path, with leveraged buyouts posting only an 8% return last year, the lowest in over a decade.
  — Don Muir, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024