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fulcrum
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    Ralph used one hand as a fulcrum and pressed down with the other till the shell rose, dripping, and Piggy could make a grab.†  (source)
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    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.†  (source)
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    I'm at the fulcrum," he said.†  (source)
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    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.†  (source)
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    Snap her arms and legs using his knees as a fulcrum as he had on occasion.†  (source)
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    Without a sound, he began to pivot from the rock, with his foothold the fulcrum.†  (source)
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    "Who was it that said he needed a fulcrum?" said Ellis Wyatt.†  (source)
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    Where was the fulcrum?†  (source)
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    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.†  (source)
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    And he felt himself to be only the occasion, the fulcrum, needed to make this movement possible.†  (source)
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    That's why it's a fulcrum word.†  (source)
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    His forefinger felt where the handle of his sword would use it for a fulcrum.†  (source)
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    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.†  (source)
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