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- noun Plural form of
fulcrum .
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Examples
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To their respective Arsenal sides, however, they became central figures: fulcrums and captains.
Arsène Wenger full of praise for Robin van Persie's annus mirabilis 2011
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And it is this innate privileging of specific routes and schedules that makes them so adored by would-be central planners who salivate at the prospect of holding such fulcrums of control.
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Pianist Jeffery Watson's fingers provided the fulcrums on which Kershaw's feet turned in tight circles, sensing every flourish in the music.
From Lucy Bowen McCauley, a retrospective of great leaps Rebecca Ritzel 2010
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Using these pivots as fulcrums also has the advantage of using these “stick in the muds” to further your own goals.
Matthew Yglesias » Lincoln Slams Mythical Liberal Extremists 2010
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During the SOPA/PIPA national outcry, the fate of one of America's largest environmental fulcrums, the Keystone XL pipeline, was to be determined.
Chase Harrison: Using Virtual Skills to Save the Real World Chase Harrison 2012
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During the SOPA/PIPA national outcry, the fate of one of America's largest environmental fulcrums, the Keystone XL pipeline, was to be determined.
Chase Harrison: Using Virtual Skills to Save the Real World Chase Harrison 2012
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Currently President of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), Haass's ideas on imperial foreign policy alluded to the formula of great empires -- those who maintained a forced peace not through territorial acquisition alone, but instead, preferred 'invisible' hegemonic structures located in geostrategic fulcrums constituting the blueprint of "realities" ie: global systems selectively designed to reinforce the notion of 'self-evident' truths.
Khadija Sharife: Egypt: Between the Pyramid and the Empire State Building 2010
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At its heart, magic, ideology, false religions, and so on.. all operate on the same principals, and fulcrums, they just work on different scales of size and organization.
Funny stuff 2010
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As in: philosophical distinctions that govern; did they intentionally choose the middle two characters: forms, to be fulcrums that can plug in and out of those bookends with such monumental consequence?
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There are people who are fulcrums in the great social spinning tops, and I decided several years ago that I wanted to be one of those people.
that's 3.75 for the hirtenk��se, 5 bucks for the chhurpi 2009
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