wield

Example Sentences

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There are good jobs in the emergency management world at the state level where you can do good work and wield a lot of power.

From Slate • May 21, 2026

“And the durability of this truce depends less on the warmth of the words exchanged by the two leaders than on the credibility of the deterrents they can wield against each other.”

From Barron's • May 15, 2026

Unlike the lower house of Congress, the 60-member-strong Senate cannot be dissolved by the president and is therefore expected to wield considerable political power.

From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026

Not to mention a symbolic victory for Tehran, which could wield the threat of blocking the strait in the future to gain concessions and rebuild power.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

Perhaps I too might wield the same old power that animated the ancestors, that lived in Nat Turner, Harriet Tubman, Nanny, Cudjoe, Malcolm X, and speak—no, act—as though my body were my own.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates