How to Use leveraged in a Sentence

leveraged

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• On five of those, the Frogs leveraged OSU into third-and-long, then closed out the drive.
  — Matt Jennings, ajc, 24 Sep. 2017
• 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 upshot is that the world of leveraged loans appears to be going slightly mad.
  — Paul J. Davies, WSJ, 14 June 2017
• 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
• All four of the companies singled out for review by the CBRC are highly leveraged.
  — Clay Chandler, Fortune, 24 June 2017
• 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
• Debt investors have already been burnt by some of the biggest leveraged retail deals in recent years.
  — Bloomberg News, OregonLive.com, 17 Oct. 2017
• 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
• Disney, both under Walt Disney’s leadership and after his death in 1966, has long leveraged patriotism for the sake of its media content and park experiences.
  — Jared Bahir Browsh, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Sep. 2024
• Margin trading, another word for leveraged trading, allows retail traders to increase the size of their position through a loan from a broker, increasing the potential rewards of a successful trade.
  — Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 21 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024