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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 exerts
That ice exerts enormous weight—ice can add 500 pounds of weight to power lines, according to the Air Force Safety Center.
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Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 26 Jan. 2026
How China exerts its influence across the globe Start with the political architecture.
—Dewardric L. McNeal, CNBC, 11 Jan. 2026
My agonizing over a coin toss illustrates the basic distortion that gambling exerts on spectating.
—Rand Richards Cooper, Hartford Courant, 8 Jan. 2026
The team also uncovered how CISTR-ACT exerts its influence.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 16 Dec. 2025
The lengthy arguments focused on whether the FTC, and similar multiheaded agencies created by Congress, exerts the power of the executive branch, the legislative branch, or a combination of both, and whether a president can be barred from firing at-will a head of one of those agencies.
—Jack Birle, The Washington Examiner, 8 Dec. 2025
Experts were split on whether the language exerts undue power on the judicial branch.
—Marissa Meador, IndyStar, 8 Dec. 2025
This danger is even greater than the concerning level of influence China currently exerts over rare earth elements.
—Bill Huizenga, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Nov. 2025
One of the reasons the production exerts such power is the foundations laid by the cast, whose performances couldn’t be more tangibly flesh-and-blood in creating this community and its individuals.
—Demetrios Matheou, HollywoodReporter, 22 Nov. 2025
Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 26 Jan. 2026
How China exerts its influence across the globe Start with the political architecture.
—Dewardric L. McNeal, CNBC, 11 Jan. 2026
My agonizing over a coin toss illustrates the basic distortion that gambling exerts on spectating.
—Rand Richards Cooper, Hartford Courant, 8 Jan. 2026
The team also uncovered how CISTR-ACT exerts its influence.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 16 Dec. 2025
The lengthy arguments focused on whether the FTC, and similar multiheaded agencies created by Congress, exerts the power of the executive branch, the legislative branch, or a combination of both, and whether a president can be barred from firing at-will a head of one of those agencies.
—Jack Birle, The Washington Examiner, 8 Dec. 2025
Experts were split on whether the language exerts undue power on the judicial branch.
—Marissa Meador, IndyStar, 8 Dec. 2025
This danger is even greater than the concerning level of influence China currently exerts over rare earth elements.
—Bill Huizenga, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Nov. 2025
One of the reasons the production exerts such power is the foundations laid by the cast, whose performances couldn’t be more tangibly flesh-and-blood in creating this community and its individuals.
—Demetrios Matheou, HollywoodReporter, 22 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for exerts
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Higgsfield tracks results, applies campaign payout formulas, and handles distribution and payment.—
Charlie Fink,
Forbes.com,
23 Jan. 2026
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Novra Power applies design to minimize part count, maximize material utilization and incorporate advanced cooling that leads to higher reliability and redundancy as well as lower maintenance.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
22 Jan. 2026
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The video, which has been posted on Instagram and TikTok and viewed thousands of times, shows a man either dead or dying from gunshot wounds as a Richmond detective uses a blunt object to smash in the driver’s side of his own vehicle and open the door.—
Nate Gartrell,
Mercury News,
24 Jan. 2026
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Johnnie Ray Salisbury, now 71, was linked to the case by forensic genealogy — a science that uses DNA from a family tree to narrow down a suspect.—
Meredith Colias-Pete,
Chicago Tribune,
24 Jan. 2026
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Elsewhere, Mario and Peach navigate deadly traps in Bowser's castle, Luigi dons his Frog Suit, and Yoshi wields a Super Scope 6.—
Shania Russell,
Entertainment Weekly,
25 Jan. 2026
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The presidency is a largely ceremonial role in Portugal but wields some key powers, including in some circumstances to dissolve parliament, to call a snap parliamentary election, and to veto legislation.—
Reuters,
NBC news,
18 Jan. 2026
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“Exerts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/exerts. Accessed 28 Jan. 2026.
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