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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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He was said to have tried to suborn the young king with lavish presents and urged him to exert his authority.
Brazil and Mexico have enough demographic and economic heft to exert real influence in international affairs.
No longer can they exert the authority on major occasions that was once their hallmark.
But, if the people of Washington, D.C., will stand up as citizens and exert their druthers, this nonsense would stop.
If it was any other person, I would have been offended and annoyed that someone should try and exert such force over me.
I am yet to meet a man, in a partnership or otherwise, who doesn't exert total domination of this device.

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