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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“The changing composition of the labor force has exerted significant downward pressure on the unemployment rate,” the ECB said earlier this year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
Morgan was at the center of a web of banks and industrial enterprises that exerted unprecedented control over the country’s commerce.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 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
The High Court ruled Mahek's "youth and her acknowledged immaturity were given far too little weight", and should have "exerted a substantial downward pressure on the minimum term".
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026
They have seen the Algonkian- and Iroquoian-speaking societies they encountered in the Northeast as too different from British societies to have exerted lasting changes on them.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
