exerted
Example Sentences
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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
Our people continued to lose their jobs, their businesses, and their homes as pressure was exerted to convince them to talk us into voluntarily withdrawing from Central High.
From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals
