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Recent Examples of wield
Caught on the Wellses’ outdoor security camera, footage recorded King stepping onto the Wellses’ property, wielding a hammer and smashing a side mirror of Chris Wells’ blue truck.
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Kansas City Star, 3 Feb. 2026
The proposals wield an especially profound effect on lower-tier clubs.
—Megan Feringa, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2026
But Beshear hasn’t turned Trump-bashing into a 24/7 vocation, or a weight-lifting contest where the winner is the critic wielding the heaviest bludgeon.
—Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2026
With legalization in California, whole waves of MBA-wielding Silicon Valley players, dollar-signs in their eyes, were moving in on territory that had once been the sole domain of hippie do-gooders and professional outlaws.
—Scott Eden, Rolling Stone, 1 Feb. 2026
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Kansas City Star, 3 Feb. 2026
The proposals wield an especially profound effect on lower-tier clubs.
—Megan Feringa, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2026
But Beshear hasn’t turned Trump-bashing into a 24/7 vocation, or a weight-lifting contest where the winner is the critic wielding the heaviest bludgeon.
—Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2026
With legalization in California, whole waves of MBA-wielding Silicon Valley players, dollar-signs in their eyes, were moving in on territory that had once been the sole domain of hippie do-gooders and professional outlaws.
—Scott Eden, Rolling Stone, 1 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wield
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Beijing is well known for turning to a playbook of economic countermeasures to exert pressure.—
Simone McCarthy,
CNN Money,
5 Feb. 2026
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Judges tasked with overseeing settlements may have no visibility into how much of an award is being siphoned off to third-party financiers, or how much pressure those financiers exert behind the scenes regarding potential settlements.—
Jaime Huff,
Oc Register,
31 Jan. 2026
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Activists have used whistles to alert neighborhoods to the presence of federal immigration agents, disrupt operations and create public pressure.—
Asra Q. Nomani,
FOXNews.com,
7 Feb. 2026
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Al-Bakoush, 58, appeared Friday afternoon in federal court in Washington, wearing a gray hoodie and using a wheelchair.—
ERIC TUCKER,
Arkansas Online,
7 Feb. 2026
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Eight of these units were connected to each other and a linear actuator was installed at one end of the line to apply the force needed to activate the elastocaloric effect.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
5 Feb. 2026
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Regardless of the type, apply the fertilizer in late winter to prepare your tree for the upcoming growing season.—
Emily Hayes,
Martha Stewart,
5 Feb. 2026
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“Wield.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wield. Accessed 11 Feb. 2026.
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