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"There's always a lot of lobbying, and ultimately perhaps also attempts to exert pressure on the committee," the secretary of the Nobel committee, Kristian Berg Harpviken, told AFP in an interview.

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

Hybrid warfare or hybrid attacks are loose terms which tend to describe non-military methods, for example cyberattacks, sabotage or misinformation, designed to exert pressure and destabilise an adversary.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

“There’s only so much control we can exert over our lives and circumstances,” she said.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026

The subject—given no hope of recovery, or of a very long life—used performance art to exert control over his body, his world, and the lung disorder that had plagued him since birth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

Given Walt’s need to exert control and Chris’s extravagantly independent nature, polarization was inevitable.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

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

In a study published in Immunity, the team showed that TL1A exerts much of its influence through a group of immune cells in the gut called ILC3s.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 25, 2026

For a wing moving through the air, the slower-moving air on the bottom of the wing exerts a greater force than the faster-moving air on the top.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

Celtic captain Callum McGregor lords it over days like this, but the supreme central midfielder was Dan Neil, not just in his outstanding goals but in the control and the leadership he exerted.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

Morgan was at the center of a web of banks and industrial enterprises that exerted unprecedented control over the country’s commerce.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026

The Quaker-inspired coalition also founded New York’s Strother School of Radical Attention, which offers courses and workshops on attention as a practice that, maintained and exerted, makes it easier to recognize and refuse such extraction.

From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026

The top U.S. cities exerted their influence as centers of commerce, trade, finance and dissent.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026

Even though most of the people who lived there were hiding from the rest of the world, nobody in that community exerted much effort at all when it came to hiding things from one another.

From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith

And changing the behavior isn’t necessarily about exerting more willpower or coming up with a better system.

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026

"Seeing a substantial increase in repetitions without the athletes feeling like they were exerting themselves any harder is a fascinating psychobiological outcome."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026

"We are going to continue exerting pressure, and we've had very good discussions here already," Bessent told reporters Monday, a day after renewed exchanges of fire with Tehran.

From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026

Freeman describes Lilley as a friend, and an anonymous email sent to City Council in 2024 complained their socializing “could be perceived as exerting undue influence or favoritism.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026

That he was only the smartest kid in the universe because, one night, he wolfed down the first sugary snack he could find without exerting any effort.

From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein