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Although the above-average ocean temperatures near the coast have been primarily due to a months-long marine heat wave, El Niño is now starting to exert an influence, Swain said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026

Ironic cheers for one first-half effort and did not exert any serious influence on the game.

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026

"For many months now, espionage, sabotage and extremely far-reaching attempts to exert influence have been part of everyday life."

From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026

Farther above, at altitudes of several hundred kilometers, traces of Earth's upper atmosphere can still exert enough drag to slow satellites.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026

We work at this all our lives, and collectively we give it life, but we do not exert the least control over language, not as individuals or committees or academies or governments.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

Instead, they detect its effects through the gravitational influence it exerts on stars, galaxies, and other visible objects.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 24, 2026

The southern hemisphere contains more of the planet's ocean water than the northern hemisphere and so exerts a bigger influence on average sea temperatures.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026

The inflation tracker that exerts the biggest influence on the actions of the Federal Reserve is getting a makeover just as a divided central bank weighs whether to raise U.S. interest rates this fall.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026

The governor exerts much control over education priorities through the state budget.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026

This states that every object in the universe exerts a tug on every other.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

Cohn never held any public office, or exerted any measurable political influence, either in New York or Washington.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

The High Court ruled Mahek's "youth and her acknowledged immaturity were given far too little weight", and should have "exerted a substantial downward pressure on the minimum term".

From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026

Lai also said China "exerted pressure" on Japan and the Philippines during their negotiations over maritime boundaries in waters east of Taiwan.

From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026

A music man in his own right, McCartney’s father exerted a prodigious influence on The Beatles’ knack for ranging far and wide when it came to generic considerations.

From Salon ● May 12, 2026

They have seen the Algonkian- and Iroquoian-speaking societies they encountered in the Northeast as too different from British societies to have exerted lasting changes on them.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said: "We are going to continue exerting pressure, and we've had very good discussions here already."

From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026

The franc’s strength over the past several months is likely exerting downward price pressure on some goods imports, counteracting the effects of higher energy prices, they said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

Regional mediators Qatar, Egypt and Turkey are currently said to be exerting heavy pressure on Hamas to move on disarmament.

From BBC ● May 7, 2026

Also exerting influence in recent elections has been the district’s other largest union: Local 99 of Service Employees International Union.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2026

But he saw that other factors were exerting a countervailing force.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson