exercised

In fact, his successor, John F. Kennedy, exercised those powers in a major way in the Bay of Pigs incident.

It’s possible that this reflects the sway that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has exercised over Trump, who has promised to place RFK Jr. in a policymaking role over healthcare.

Or is something else happening; is the press manifesting an unadmitted genuflection to raw power, exercised arbitrarily, out of calculated self-preservation?

Contract options — either team or player — must be exercised within the same five days.

One idea that has many rich Americans exercised is the possibility of a wealth tax.