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Flooding can range from centimeters to several meters, while fast currents can exert forces equivalent to several tons per square meter against coastal structures.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026

As fetal hemoglobin gives way to adult hemoglobin, however, the disease begins to exert its damaging effects.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

Fielder said the relationship grew strained as Evans tried to exert greater control over the project.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026

Daichi Kamada: Busy in midfield as always but struggled to exert influence.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

Also, a smaller community tends to exert greater social incentives against crime, the main one being shame.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt

Even though light can pass through it, making it invisible, it exerts a massive gravitational force that works to collapse the universe in on itself.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 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

Former Mexican and American security officials note that while the February confrontations exposed how little control the government exerts over parts of Jalisco, the cartels understand the economics of the moment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 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

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

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

That stands in contrast to President Xi, who has exerted greater central control and pressed a state-driven economic policy focused on technological autonomy and strategic industries.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 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

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

He exerted his will, ordering the skeletons to dissolve.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

"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

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

In February 2022, Hugh, then aged 71, felt generally well but started to experience shortness of breath when he was exerting himself.

From BBC ● Jun. 10, 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

Three girls fly past us, their strides so smooth it doesn’t look like they’re even exerting themselves.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison