exercised
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The next day, the New York Times noted that “a sizable segment of the audience exercised its prerogative to dislike the composition and to make its reaction unmistakable by hissing indignantly at the end.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026
They made numerous unsubstantiated allegations that she had exercised control over their father.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 9, 2026
The club have since exercised their right to appeal the verdict and vehemently deny any wrongdoing.
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026
“The defendant could have exercised his right to take the case to trial, but he instead requested that our office agree to resolve the case through a diversion agreement,” McEvoy wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
And whatever extraneous influence the tannery may have exercised, the calamities of the land belong to it alone, born of wind and rain and weather, immensities not to be tempered by man or his creations.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
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