exacted

Example Sentences

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The report defines “forced labor” as “all work or service which is exacted from any person under the menace of any penalty for its nonperformance and for which the worker does not offer himself voluntarily.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

It is unclear if payments are being exacted under the new system.

From MarketWatch • May 19, 2026

Investor morale is now at its lowest point since December 2022, in the aftermath of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine as surging energy costs exacted a heavy toll on German manufacturers.

From Barron's • Apr. 21, 2026

“Valley Song,” the greatest of the post-apartheid works, offers a lyrical meditation on the human cost of change, the losses exacted by progress.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2025

She went through the world and exacted an oath from everything, all things with life and without life, never to do him harm.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton