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Definition

the pivot about which a lever turns

More rarely, a fulcrum is anything that supports something else that revolves around it.

It is the fulcrum on which the plan pivots.

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
Archimedes
shifted the fulcrum of U.S. politics
'Give me a fulcrum, and I shall move the world!'
Bram Stoker -- Dracula
I understood the mechanics of levers; but where was I to get a fulcrum?
Jack London -- Sea Wolf
That's why it's a fulcrum word.
Robert M. Pirsig -- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Snap her arms and legs using his knees as a fulcrum as he had on occasion.
Ted Dekker -- BoneMan's Daughters
I'm at the fulcrum," he said.
Frank Herbert -- Dune
And he felt himself to be only the occasion, the fulcrum, needed to make this movement possible.
Boris Pasternak -- Doctor Zhivago
Without a sound, he began to pivot from the rock, with his foothold the fulcrum.
Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War
His forefinger felt where the handle of his sword would use it for a fulcrum.
T. H. White -- The Once and Future King
Timber splinters, as though the rubble teeters on some final fulcrum.
Anthony Doerr -- All the Light We Cannot See
"Who was it that said he needed a fulcrum?" said Ellis Wyatt.
Ayn Rand -- Atlas Shrugged
Ralph used one hand as a fulcrum and pressed down with the other till the shell rose, dripping, and Piggy could make a grab.
William Golding -- Lord of the Flies
Where was the fulcrum?
Tim O'Brien -- Going After Cacciato
His bitterness was a fulcrum and his rage was a long lever with which he would move the world, the whole damn world, to learn the truth, no matter what damage he caused or whom he destroyed in the process.
Dean Koontz -- Sole Survivor
But what I am saying is that it is these sorts of instances which over time come to symbolize an irrefutable fact; namely that one has had the privilege of practising one's profession at the very fulcrum of great affairs.
Kazuo Ishiguro -- The Remains of the Day
Jewel's hat droops limp about his neck, channelling water onto the soaked towsack tied about his shoulders as, ankle-deep in the running ditch, he pries with a slipping two-by-four, with a piece of rotting log for fulcrum, at the axle.
William Faulkner -- As I Lay Dying
Nurse Duckett shrieked and jumped into the air a mile, but it wasn't high enough, and she squirmed and vaulted and seesawed back and forth on her divine fulcrum for almost a full fifteen seconds before she wiggled free finally and retreated frantically into the aisle with an ashen, trembling face.
Joseph Heller -- Catch-22
To do once, is the fulcrum whereby child brain become man brain.
Bram Stoker -- Dracula

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