Example Sentences

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No film since Jonathan Glazer’s wizardly “The Zone of Interest” has wielded such a meticulously controlled formal approach to visualizing the insidiousness of moral rot.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

Ouattara, 83, has wielded power in the world's top cocoa producer since 2011, when the country began reasserting itself as a west African economic powerhouse.

From Barron's • Oct. 25, 2025

Rather than the hammer blow of a mass walkout it has wielded historically, the UAW has played the companies against each other, using reprieves from expansion of work stoppages as encouragement.

From Reuters • Oct. 26, 2023

Google DeepMind has wielded its revolutionary protein-structure-prediction AI in the hunt for genetic mutations that cause disease.

From Scientific American • Sep. 21, 2023

By an accident comparatively recent, the protagonist of chaos in these things happened to be that rigid but curiously amorphous power which Prussia has wielded for many years to no defined end.

From A General Sketch of the European War The First Phase by Belloc, Hilaire