have exercised
- present perfect of exercise.
Example Sentences
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In other jurisdictions, members of the federal bench have exercised their authority to appoint an interim U.S. attorney.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2026
The citizen observers say they have exercised their rights.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026
Since then, chief executives in such death penalty hot spots as Oklahoma, Georgia, and Texas have exercised their clemency power to spare the lives of people in their state who were condemned to death.
From Slate ● Jan. 16, 2026
Would you like to have exercised more, learned a new language or taken more education, but you feel that everything is too much effort?
From Science Daily ● Mar. 18, 2024
And whatever extraneous influence the tannery may have exercised, the calamities of the land belong to it alone, born of wind and rain and weather, immensities not to be tempered by man or his creations.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
