Thesaurus results for EXERTED

exerted

verb

past tense of exert

as in applied

to bring to bear especially forcefully or effectively parental involvement has consistently been shown to exert the most influence over a child's success in school

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Recent Examples of exerted We were warned by President and Supreme Allied Commander Dwight Eisenhower, along with United States Marine Major General Smedley Butler about the virulently toxic, corruptive and destabilizing influences exerted upon our government by the military industrial complex. —

Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 May 2026 As a major cultural and economic hub, Rio de Janeiro has exerted significant influence on Brazilian music, film, and visual arts, and remains one of the country’s leading tourist destinations. —

Encyclopedia Britannica, 13 May 2026 But the current administration in Washington has exerted control over what was once a local matter. —

Monique O. Madan, Sun Sentinel, 11 May 2026 The effort Minnesota exerted on the defensive end and the glass is exhausting. —

Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 3 May 2026 Villa have rarely exerted themselves but largely won comfortably anyway, barring the October aberration of a 2-1 loss away to Go Ahead Eagles of the Netherlands in the league phase. —

Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2026 The meters use electrical conductivity or tensiometer tubes that measure the suction exerted by the soil on the water, which indicates the soil moisture available to plants. —

Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 23 Apr. 2026 Vince still exerted autocratic control. —

Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026 Similarly, the team also found that, while in space, astronauts actually exerted more force than necessary to grip objects because their brains still expected the presence of gravity. —

Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 20 Apr. 2026

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Consistency, applied twice a day every single day over years and decades, is the only thing that genuinely moves the needle on skin health and pleasure is what makes consistency possible.

— Pooja Mistry, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
That or all of Paige's posts are set up for the age restriction trigger, and it was applied to this post in question out of habit.

— Sean Joseph OutKick, FOXNews.com, 18 May 2026