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- noun Plural form of
leveler .
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Examples
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A lot of leveling has been going on among us lately, but, as Dr. Samuel Johnson noted in his day, the levelers always want to level down to themselves, never up.
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The recession and weak recovery have been income levelers.
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Warehousing equipment is a leading dock equipment manufacturer offering aluminum dock plates, dock bumpers, dock boards, levelers, chocks, and other equipment and accessories at affordable price.
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The Key Fit has a liquid levelers and a locking system that is very easy to operate.
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Libraries are the great levelers and the thought of budding creative people from the Valley or South or East LA hopping a bus and coming to WeHo to learn, to observe and mingle with others developing similar interests suggests a possible flowering -- a Renaissance -- of culture and color and Freedom of Expression unlike any we've seen since the vibrant 1960s.
Karen Ocamb: New West Hollywood Library Invites Cultural Renaissance Karen Ocamb 2011
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One is reminded of Samuel Johnson's observation, made about the same time, that your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves.
Hard-Headed Idealist Aram Bakshian Jr. 2011
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And since most of our self-anointed levelers begin pretty well down to scale, the total effect on society has not been to elevate, but to degrade.
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Libraries are the great levelers and the thought of budding creative people from the Valley or South or East LA hopping a bus and coming to WeHo to learn, to observe and mingle with others developing similar interests suggests a possible flowering -- a Renaissance -- of culture and color and Freedom of Expression unlike any we've seen since the vibrant 1960s.
Karen Ocamb: New West Hollywood Library Invites Cultural Renaissance Karen Ocamb 2011
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And there he was, dosed up on industrial strength mood levelers by doctors who received ridiculous government-endorsed bonuses for making sure they kept in mind the “greater good” they were doing for society.
The Redleys Matt Haig 2010
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Then again, we should give Morris the benefit of the doubt—at that point in time, the income tax was unconstitutional, which put a severe crimp into the redistributionist plans of social levelers.
HAVE YOU SEEN MY COUNTRY LATELY? JERRY DOYLE 2010
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