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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
Ball expects the main areas to be impacted will be food and vehicles, both of which have exerted either disinflationary or deflationary pressures in recent months.
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Jeff Cox, CNBC, 1 Oct. 2024
Even in the age of smartphones and social media, Ethiopia’s authoritarian government has exerted remarkable control over the flow of information.
—Nic Cheeseman, Foreign Affairs, 8 Apr. 2021
Jeff Cox, CNBC, 1 Oct. 2024
Even in the age of smartphones and social media, Ethiopia’s authoritarian government has exerted remarkable control over the flow of information.
—Nic Cheeseman, Foreign Affairs, 8 Apr. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for exerted
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When applied to each state’s eight individual grades used in my scorecard, this geeky math shows California’s grades had the highest deviation.Jonathan Lansner, Orange County Register, 14 Nov. 2024
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In the future, researchers believe similar dating methodologies could one day be applied to not just other meteorites, but planets.Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 14 Nov. 2024
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Born in revolution, tempered by war This gun served in the American Civil War and was later used in many conflicts throughout the 19th century.Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 4 Oct. 2024
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Despite its previous bad culinary advice about pizza and rocks, AI will initially be used for the presentation of the results for queries in English about recipes and meal ideas entered on mobile devices.Michael Liedtke, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2024
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It was never intended to be wielded around as a brute-force financial tool for an insurance company that has posted a $14 billion revenue growth in 2024.Richard Menger MD MPA, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
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Rain gods, for example, wielded him like an ax, creating sparks in seeds for agriculture.James L. Fitzsimmons, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2024
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If those options are not exercised, each pitcher would get a $1 million buyout.Dan Schlossberg, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
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Many Indigenous nations that exercised them survive today, long outliving the Spanish Empire – and the people who carried the Requerimiento on their crusade across the Americas.Diego Javier Luis, The Conversation, 2 Oct. 2024
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“Exerted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/exerted. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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