How to Use leveraged in a Sentence

leveraged

adjective
  • The cloud play would be the biggest leveraged buyout in months.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2022
  • The deal would have been one of the largest leveraged buyouts in recent years.
    — Bob Tita, WSJ, 22 Jan. 2019
  • Those in the industry point out that not all leveraged products are duds.
    — Spencer Jakab, WSJ, 29 June 2018
  • The transaction is one of the largest leveraged buyouts of the past decade.
    — Amy Feldman, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • With Smith gone, younger relievers will get more leveraged roles.
    — Henry Schulman, SFChronicle.com, 9 Dec. 2019
  • Miners are leveraged winners right now.
    — Frank Holmes, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • This would be the largest [leveraged buyout] in history.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 21 Feb. 2026
  • Or will the joint company be too leveraged to pull off another deal?
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 28 May 2026
  • The algorithms are a very powerful tool and that’s got to be part of the recipe and leveraged.
    — Ben Smith, semafor.com, 14 Feb. 2026
  • This opened a new pipeline for Robert Hetu and his team of leveraged loan makers.
    — Christopher Leonard, Fortune, 22 Nov. 2021
  • Trump leveraged celebrity and perceived wealth to the White House.
    — Time, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Both deals were heavily criticized as over-leveraged at the time.
    — Joseph M. Singer, HollywoodReporter, 22 May 2026
  • Debt investors have already been burnt by some of the biggest leveraged retail deals in recent years.
    — Bloomberg News, OregonLive.com, 17 Oct. 2017
  • Lee was one of the leaders in the use of leveraged buyouts, or LBOs.
    — Chris Isidore, CNN, 24 Feb. 2023
  • The bears assert that Hong Kong’s economy is the most leveraged in the world.
    — John Greenwood and, WSJ, 24 June 2019
  • The deal is expected to become one of the largest leveraged buyouts ever.
    — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2026
  • At the time, the deal was the biggest leveraged buyout since the financial crisis.
    — Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 17 Dec. 2025
  • McWilliams pointed out that most leveraged loans are held outside of the banking system.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 2 Aug. 2019
  • Vision Fund 2 is leveraged, and most of its investments are still private.
    — Eliot Brown, WSJ, 2 Aug. 2022
  • CLOs are bundles of leveraged loans packaged into bonds of varying size and risk.
    — Scott Carpenter, Bloomberg, 11 Feb. 2026
  • On five of those, the Frogs leveraged OSU into third-and-long, then closed out the drive.
    — Matt Jennings, ajc, 24 Sep. 2017
  • The take-private deal will be the largest leveraged buyout in Wall Street history.
    — Julie Coleman, CNBC, 6 Oct. 2025
  • UberEats leveraged customer feedback to get to the heart of real-time sentiment.
    — Forbes, 20 May 2021
  • Some have leveraged philanthropy.
    — Lexi Lonas Cochran, The Hill, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Financials, often viewed as a leveraged bet on the future of a nation, appear to be a favorite among many.
    — Ganesh Rao, CNBC, 5 June 2025
  • Last week, news broke that the company would be taken private in what would be the largest leveraged buyout in history.
    — Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The retailer’s debt load stemmed from its 2005 leveraged buyout.
    — Lillian Rizzo, WSJ, 18 July 2018
  • The deal was an early example of the 1980s wave of leveraged buyouts.
    — James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 26 May 2023

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