Example Sentences

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Despite this, he agreed 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 • Oct. 24, 2025

We’ve seen firsthand the pressure that commercial interests have exerted on our field.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 12, 2023

"She has reported on initiatives to protect and preserve the Tatar language and culture from Russian authorities, who have exerted increased pressure on Tatars in recent years."

From Reuters • Oct. 19, 2023

In recent years, streamers have exerted downward pressure on the number of writer-producers who work on shows and stripping early- and mid-career writers out of the casting, production and editing processes.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 9, 2023

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