0 something, typically death, that affects people of every class and rank in the same way, making everyone seem equal:
It is the great leveler that has decentralized the creation, consumption, and criticism of art.
In the entertainment industry, one of our core and usually unspoken beliefs is that art is a great communicator and even a mass leveler.
Performance-enhancing drugs are that great leveler, that tool for athletes to bridge the unfair natural gap.
It's a great leveler of sorts.
They acted as a leveler among the participants, placing them all on the same page and with the same ownership of the problem at hand.
Perhaps the school experience has a moderating effect and by third grade serves as a ``leveler,'' exerting increasing influence over child school behavior relative to the influence of early caregiving.
The rioting ethnic crowd becomes the ``leveler,'' ``eliminating the alleged advantages enjoyed by the opponent and redressing the inequality allegedly suffered by the aggressor, usually a majority'' (p. 275).
A common peril is a mighty leveler of barriers.
