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Shriner allegedly fired her gun at officers and got shot, after police responded to a request to help find hit-and-run suspects and encountered Shriner reportedly wielding a handgun at a nearby residence.
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John Lonsdale, Rolling Stone, 12 Apr. 2025
The choice is ours: wield the Ring and fall, or destroy it and rise.
—Jon Fleischman, Oc Register, 12 Apr. 2025
However, China will not be able to wield a weaker yuan as a weapon in its deepening trade war with the U.S. because of concerns that such a move could trigger financial market instability, most market watchers surveyed by CNBC said.
—Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 11 Apr. 2025
Zoom in: Musk, who has wielded significant influence in the Trump administration, may be stepping back in coming months, the president said Thursday.
—Ben Berkowitz, Axios, 5 Apr. 2025
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Education is another sector where government funding exerts significant influence, as the Trump Administration is now demonstrating.—
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The zigzag outlines of his pendant lights, for instance, exert a kind of magnetic force like lightning.—
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The team used surrogate dogs -- since adopted through the humane society -- to help give birth to the dire wolves, which are white.—
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Prosecutors said Mahdi constantly used brutality to solve his problems.—
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If an institution like Harvard cannot resist tyranny when applied to it, then who can? KARL (voice-over): The Ivy League University refuses Trump's latest demands, putting billions in federal funding on the line.—
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“Wield.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wield. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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