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As you age, you may face limitations on your ability to exert agency, socialize often and embrace a cause.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026

However, stockpiling could still be propelling that upturn as supply constraints continued to exert an impact with the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

They result from the movement of mantle material beneath the lithosphere and the forces that flowing mantle can exert on the rigid plate above it.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 1, 2026

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

Since Seabiscuit refused to exert himself in workouts, it would have made little sense to pair him with the brilliantly fast Granville, especially as Granville already had a designated workmate who traveled with him.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

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

If one spouse exerts control and the other is disengaged or kept out of the loop, filing tax returns can inflame tensions and drive a wedge into the relationship.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 5, 2026

Here, Beethoven exerts a compulsion for triumphant glory.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2026

It requires only a small amount of water to fill the tube, but because the height is great it exerts an enormous pressure—enough to burst the barrel.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

Vernacular music has long exerted a powerful hold over our American identity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 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 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

So great was the power that Saruman exerted in this last effort that none that stood within hearing were unmoved.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

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

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

But the league forced Frank McCourt to sell the Dodgers in 2012 by exerting pressure and threatening a financial takeover or disciplinary action that would have stripped operational control.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

Were they exerting subtle pressure on him to conform?

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady