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Recent Examples of wields
Macron still wields significant authority over foreign policy, European affairs, and the military as commander in chief of France's nuclear arsenal.
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Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025
Mira wields a gokdo from the Goguryeo era, and Zoey possesses a shinkal from the Joseon era.
—Christopher Rudolph, People.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Amid the chaos is a quartet of badass girls, including Hari Nef’s Bex, who wields a nail gun like nobody’s business.
—Samantha Allen, Them., 22 Aug. 2025
The solo founder who wields AI agents with discernment will have the leverage once reserved for Fortune 500 companies.
—Mark Minevich, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
No minor appointment, this position wields great power in rooting out and recommending ways to eliminate waste, fraud and abuse, and in the process potentially destroying people’s reputations and careers through a virtually unchecked use of investigatory power.
—John Hohman, Baltimore Sun, 9 Aug. 2025
But anyone who thinks that the brief ubiquity of corporate diversity trainings is proof that the radical left wields great power and influence in America has quite simply never sat through a corporate diversity training.
—Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 5 Aug. 2025
Milei, who rose to prominence in Argentina with a vow to shake up the country’s government and economy, often wields a chain saw at political events, emblematic of his mission to cut large swaths of his country’s federal government.
—Sarah Fortinsky, The Hill, 2 July 2025
Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025
Mira wields a gokdo from the Goguryeo era, and Zoey possesses a shinkal from the Joseon era.
—Christopher Rudolph, People.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Amid the chaos is a quartet of badass girls, including Hari Nef’s Bex, who wields a nail gun like nobody’s business.
—Samantha Allen, Them., 22 Aug. 2025
The solo founder who wields AI agents with discernment will have the leverage once reserved for Fortune 500 companies.
—Mark Minevich, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
No minor appointment, this position wields great power in rooting out and recommending ways to eliminate waste, fraud and abuse, and in the process potentially destroying people’s reputations and careers through a virtually unchecked use of investigatory power.
—John Hohman, Baltimore Sun, 9 Aug. 2025
But anyone who thinks that the brief ubiquity of corporate diversity trainings is proof that the radical left wields great power and influence in America has quite simply never sat through a corporate diversity training.
—Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 5 Aug. 2025
Milei, who rose to prominence in Argentina with a vow to shake up the country’s government and economy, often wields a chain saw at political events, emblematic of his mission to cut large swaths of his country’s federal government.
—Sarah Fortinsky, The Hill, 2 July 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wields
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As the planet orbits the star, the star also moves — or wobbles in its own orbit — due to the equal-and-opposite gravitational force that the planet exerts on the parent star.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
10 Sep. 2025
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Artau has been a longtime member of the Republican Party and the conservative Federalist Society, which exerts a significant influence on judicial appointments at the state and federal levels.—
Jay Weaver,
Miami Herald,
9 Sep. 2025
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The hurricane center uses only the top four or five highest-performing models to help make its forecasts.—
Gabe Hauari,
USA Today,
10 Sep. 2025
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At the WellChild Awards in London on Monday, May 8, Harry, 40, chatted with 13-year-old Grace Tutt, a Special Recognition winner who uses a wheelchair following a bus crash.—
Erin Hill,
People.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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The expiring boost, implemented in Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act under former President Joe Biden, applies to 22 million of the 24 million low- and middle-income Americans with plans through the ACA marketplace.—
Ramsey Touchberry,
The Washington Examiner,
11 Sep. 2025
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No, Spotify's Lossless Listening only applies to music streamed on the app, Spotify engineer John Cieslik-Bridgen told USA TODAY.—
Greta Cross,
USA Today,
10 Sep. 2025
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“Wields.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wields. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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