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Tighter credit conditions will exert meaningful pressure on economic activity, but the effect will not be catastrophic unless the situation escalates into "full-blown crisis of confidence," Barclays analysts wrote in a note last week.

From Reuters • Mar. 27, 2023

She said: "I will exert maximum pressure to get the UK government to come to the table to negotiate."

From BBC • Mar. 1, 2023

“At some point, the magnetic field becomes so large that it will exert a torque on the internal region of the star, and it will spin down,” he says.

From Scientific American • Jan. 24, 2023

But some wonder whether Charles will exert the emotional grip the queen had on the Scottish people.

From Washington Post • Sep. 14, 2022

Where is the military, where the naval power by which we are to resist the whole strength of the arm of England, for she will exert that strength to the utmost?

From The Works of Daniel Webster, Volume 1 by Webster, Daniel