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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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The ring is temptation personified and that temptation that the ring exerts over you so exists through his force of personality and charisma.
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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.
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“Exerts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/exerts. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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