Pet peeve... “Leverage.”

No, you’re not “leveraging Zoom for these workshops.” You’re using Zoom.

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Thx. Will leverage your feedback going forward.

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But it has more syllables, using the word makes me sound smarter!

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Leveraging additional syllables creates synergistic effects, without boiling the ocean

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I mean, leverage is often leveraged as a posh synonym for use so no issue with either sentence

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In a specifically financial context, sure, but more generally it also means to use or take full advantage of something, hence “leveraging Zoom” is correct

Get over yourself

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