exerted
Example Sentences
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He then called Zia and exerted similar pressure.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
Morgan was at the center of a web of banks and industrial enterprises that exerted unprecedented control over the country’s commerce.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 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
It’s impossible to overestimate the depth and singularity of influence that Roach, who died in 2007 at 83 years old, exerted on jazz, and on American culture.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
He didn’t want to get out in the rain, but my evil saint exerted some kind of pressure on him.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
