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wielded

verb

past tense of wield

as in exerted

to bring to bear especially forcefully or effectively wields considerable influence in the field of women's sports

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Recent Examples of wielded According to the witness, the driver then wielded a knife and reportedly chased the man, who fought the woman. — Jeramie Bizzle, CBS News, 26 Aug. 2026 My main takeaway from Capps’s course was that the New Religious Right was not a spiritual revival but a political machine, one that cloaked its ambitions in scripture and wielded faith for partisan ends. — Literary Hub, 25 Aug. 2026 Formally, the sculpture connects with last year’s performance by way of a standing structure that, in the live event, was PVC piping that was wielded and rose up into a similar position in the end. — Andy Battaglia, ARTnews.com, 21 Aug. 2026 Again and again, the camera, wielded by the director of photography Mike Gioulakis, glides past scenes of horror and carnage with an elegance that verges on indifference. — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026 The team has wielded AxiomProver to build a library of results about gaps in primes. — Benjamin Skuse, IEEE Spectrum, 17 Aug. 2026 Hope Davis as Nancy Reagan Hope Davis plays Nancy Reagan, who, beyond her duties as first lady, was one of her husband’s closest confidantes and wielded considerable influence behind the scenes during his presidency. — Samantha Stutsman, PEOPLE, 15 Aug. 2026 At a time when everyone was watching the same handful of TV channels, Winfrey wielded immeasurable influence on her audience. — Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 13 Aug. 2026 When individuals and institutions have spoken out against policy toward Israel, the president has wielded the power of the state to attack them, withholding funding from universities and deporting and jailing protesters. — Michael Fuchs, Foreign Affairs, 6 Aug. 2026

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Will challenges often allege that someone exerted undue influence over the testator or that the testator had diminished mental capacity.

— Bob Carlson, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2026
Many lived in company towns, where coal operators owned their homes and stores and ultimately exerted enormous control over their daily lives.

— Katie Angell Britannica Editors Aug. 27, Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Aug. 2026

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