Thesaurus results for WIELD

wield

verb

ˈwēld

Definition of wield next

as in to exert

to bring to bear especially forcefully or effectively wields considerable influence in the field of women's sports

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Recent Examples of wield Officers rushed to the scene in a popular shopping center after receiving an emergency call reporting a rampage by a knife-wielding man. —

ABC News, 26 Mar. 2026 The Surgeon General's office, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency are banned for 10 years from wielding legal, regulatory or economic pressure to persuade the platforms to remove protected speech. —

Jessica Guynn, USA Today, 26 Mar. 2026 Another of her stars is a fierce fast-food warrior clad in a cheeseburger skirt, wielding ketchup and mustard laser guns and flanked by a squad of fighters who happen to be anthropomorphic pizza and hot dogs. —

Leigh-Ann Jackson, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2026 Together, the Fruits form a coven — or, at least, something like a coven — wielding their soft supernatural powers between shifts, on and off the sales floor. —

Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 25 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for wield

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At least two tankers have passed through the Strait of Hormuz while impersonating ships scrapped long ago, as Iran continues to exert a tight hold on traffic through the waterway.

— Matthew Martin, semafor.com, 25 Mar. 2026
This is why Russia sees no immediate advantage to a rapid end to the conflict, believing that the path to victory will come from exerting pressure on the ground, rather than from negotiations.

— Olivier Kempf, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026