Example Sentences

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Musk even admitted he shouldn’t have wielded that chainsaw because it lacked empathy.

From Salon • Jul. 2, 2025

What’s changed is that the key point of leverage outside groups have wielded, for good and for ill, over housing construction in California communities is gone.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 1, 2025

But since 2022, Uber and Lyft have wielded opaque algorithms that seem to incorporate data collected on workers to determine pay for each ride, offering increasingly meager amounts with little explanation.

From Slate • Oct. 13, 2024

But affected firms have wielded their most powerful weapon against the ban: complaints.

From New York Times • Jan. 16, 2023

And convinced of the validity of his contention, he is not surprised, as some may be, at the influence which wells and springs have wielded, and still do wield, over the human soul.

From Nature Mysticism by Mercer, John Edward