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You need to believe that you can wield control over your choices and resist outside forces that try to influence you.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026

The game is played in bumper-car-like carts while you wield a lacrosse-style stick and try to score, and within minutes everyone in our group was laughing.

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026

Only the United States has that kind of influence, should it choose to wield it.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

The two firms on Wednesday announced a partnership that aims to wield creator content to influence the brand and product recommendations that show up on platforms like ChatGPT.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

In the confined space of the snake’s den there was no room to wield the fabled blade.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

In the popular imagination, a Viking is tall, broad-shouldered man who wields a sword, and might have a modern haircut like a skin fade or lots of tattoos.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

The YouTube channels of United influencer Mark Goldbridge's were recently acquired, a further sign of the influence Neville now wields in football's media industry.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

“Frozen III,” meanwhile, will see Anna and Kristoff finally get married before the sisters meet a mysterious stranger who also wields ice magic.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026

The network’s legal department now clearly wields a veto over its newsroom and primetime opinion stars.

From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026

Though the government had appointed someone in his stead, a chief is a chief by virtue of his birth and wields authority because of his blood.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

In Malta, home to 70,000 offshore companies and the headquarters of some of the world’s largest gambling groups, she wielded her pen against ministers and businessmen.

From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026

When tensions arose between Amodei and OpenAI co-founders Sam Altman and Brockman over who wielded power at the startup, Amodei, his sister and five other employees left to found Anthropic, in December 2020.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

Cuellar identified the man who allegedly wielded the machete as Cornell Richardson, 32.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026

We spent the next 15 minutes in that training discussing power — what it really meant during slavery and how it could be skillfully forged and wielded even by people in the grip of slavery.

From Salon ● Jun. 19, 2026

Did the duke know the power his Champion wielded?

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas

Trump made the case on Tuesday that his wielding of U.S. military power and diplomatic pressure has delivered for Americans.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

“Agency” is wielding power and autonomy in choosing how to live; “belonging” is forging social ties with others; and “cause” is serving a higher purpose.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026

He appears in a video with two ministry officials, one wielding a clipboard, at SeaWorld.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

Today, in the age of artificial intelligence and with millions of people wielding cameras on their phones, the accuracy and transparency of published images are not necessarily guaranteed, Marazzi said.

From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026

“Attention. We have been robbed by an aboatia, a girl wielding a sword purchased from Amazon, a rogue Queen Mother, and a young man with terrible fashion sense,” Tano’s voice sounds over the intercoms.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer