exert
Example Sentences
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Some board members had previously expressed concerns about how much influence Taylor Fresh Foods could exert.
Rather, Feroli expects that a smaller Fed balance sheet could exert moderate upward pressure on longer-term interest rates.
From Barron's
When I got Bingo, these facts were framed to me as a kind of conspiracy—corporations exerting influence on vets, inducing them to sell ultraprocessed food to pet parents.
Both books show how enslaved people exerted pressure against slaveholders, militias and the political leaders who sought to perpetuate systems of forced labor.
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
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