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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