exerts

present tense third-person singular of exert
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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 exerts The ring is temptation personified and that temptation that the ring exerts over you so exists through his force of personality and charisma. Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 3 Oct. 2024 Its sketchiness exerts a special pull on the imagination, so that what is missing often becomes more vivid and perfect and charged than the actual object itself. Pitchfork, 1 Oct. 2024

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“Exerts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/exerts. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.

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