exert
verb (used with object)
to put forth or into use, as power; exercise, as ability or influence; put into vigorous action.
exerted
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past participleof exert.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof exert.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
exertverb (used with object)to put forth or into use, as power; exercise, as ability or influence; put into vigorous action.
Example Sentences
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That stands in contrast to President Xi, who has exerted greater central control and pressed a state-driven economic policy focused on technological autonomy and strategic industries.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
The Quaker-inspired coalition also founded New York’s Strother School of Radical Attention, which offers courses and workshops on attention as a practice that, maintained and exerted, makes it easier to recognize and refuse such extraction.
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026
It was “an excruciating experience,” one person present said, and a signal how little influence America’s closest allies, even traveling as a collective, exerted with the administration.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
According to anonymous sources quoted by the Financial Times, other directors viewed Manifold as too aggressive and believed he exerted excessive control over the company.
From Barron's ● May 26, 2026
In 1676, Robert Hooke figured out that the force exerted by a spring, f, was a negative constant, –k, multiplied by the distance, x, that you’ve stretched it: f = –kx.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
