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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 exerted
Trump began his second presidential term a few days after Maduro’s inauguration and has since exerted various forms of pressure.
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Germán Padinger, CNN Money, 31 Dec. 2025
For most of the final season, Stranger Things has exerted a fair amount of effort to retcon what the series is really about.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 30 Dec. 2025
The network has exerted its influence in major AI policy battles this year.
—Andrew R. Chow, Time, 23 Dec. 2025
Not only that, but these observations also tell us more about the nature of TDEs – when a star is shredded by the immense gravitational forces exerted by a black hole.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 12 Dec. 2025
Inside, another student said university officials overstepped and exerted too much control over the event.
—Sacbee.com, 11 Nov. 2025
Vought has exerted extraordinary control over government spending this year, usurping congressional decisions on how the nation's money is used.
—Amy Maxmen, ABC News, 5 Nov. 2025
Big players did not step up in a game which required authority; Woltemade was anonymous, Anthony Gordon was dreadful, Newcastle’s midfield exerted little control.
—George Caulkin, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025
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, 18 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for exerted
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Macro factors like lower consumer demand, higher material and labor costs, and a trend in consumer trade-down to lower margin tire products have applied significant margin and growth pressure.—
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And some Venezuelans, who applied to renew earlier this year, had their TPS extended through early April.—
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However, Corbett was used as a utility fill-in starter at left guard, center and right guard for the remainder of the season.—
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Elisa, a Concord resident who asked that her last name not be used, said the incident reflects a broader sense of fear within communities.—
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That was more than a decade after China had wielded the materials as a weapon against Tokyo during a 2010 territorial dispute.—
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For those who know about incarceration, the language and attitudes wielded against undocumented immigrants feels starkly similar to those directed at Japanese people during World War II.—
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Read correctly, the subdivision (a) designation authority, while it is not conferred on the head (or heads) of a different branch, is nevertheless both diffused among the members of the court and checked by the need to obtain a majority to determine whether and how it should be exercised.—
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An investor must be prepared to own TLT at $86 if put was to be exercised before expiration.—
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“Exerted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/exerted. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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