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What does exert mean?

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Verb
  1. To put in vigorous action.
  2. To make use of, to apply, especially of something non-material.
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I am yet to meet a man, in a partnership or otherwise, who doesn't exert total domination of this device.
He was a capable hand at blindside flanker, but tended to exert greater influence from the second row.
Some of the calcium channel blockers also exert an inhibitory effect on the sinus and atrioventricular nodes, causing the heart rate to slow.
He describes discourse as a technique used by the power elite to exert control over other constituent groups.
Bursting has also been recorded in vivo, where it can be directly observed to exert negative feedback on plasma glucose levels.
But, if the people of Washington, D.C., will stand up as citizens and exert their druthers, this nonsense would stop.

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