- present participle of wield.
wielding
Example Sentences
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Only a true and blustery hero can string it, much as we believe that only Damon can win a knife fight by wielding a pen.
From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2026
Hugging Face - a kind of app store for artificial intelligence tools - announced on 16 July it had been hacked by a cyber criminal wielding enormously powerful AI.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
Union leader Dave Regan has spent decades wielding California’s ballot system against the healthcare industry.
From Slate ● Jul. 6, 2026
In Seattle's Ballard district, a drag queen was wielding a microphone and putting on a show ahead of the World Cup meeting of Iran and Egypt.
From Barron's ● Jun. 27, 2026
Maybe what they’d done had proven to the weapons that they were worthy of wielding them in the first place.
From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi
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