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Example sentences for: wielded

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There hasn't been any pretense, as there often is with these kinds of books, that the nominal author actually wielded the pen.
But the instruments it has to do this with are blunt compared with the authority it wielded two decades ago.
I am not as sanguine as Safire, and believe that using the word will always carry some slight risk: It may be wielded as a slur and received as a compliment, or vice versa.
The Washington Post , New York Times and Los Angeles Times lead with the early returns from Russia's parliamentary elections, surprising because they show that centrist and reform parties, including a brand-new Kremlin-based bloc, the Unity party, have made gains that significantly cut into the power long wielded in the legislature by the communists.
He wielded immense power, but who recalls a single thing he wrote today, especially compared with the memorable work of James Agee or Andrew Sarris or, above all, Pauline Kael?