wields

Verb

wield (third-person singular simple present wields, present participle wielding, simple past and past participle wielded)

1. To handle with skill and ease, especially a weapon or tool.
2. To exercise (authority or influence) effectively.
   • The question isn't whether AI will reshape human society—it's whether its engineers will wield that power thoughtfully.2025 August 27, Dana Suskind, “AI Engineers Need Their Own Hippocratic Oath. Here’s What It Should Say”, in TIME, archived from the original on 30 Aug 2025
3. (obsolete) To command, rule over; to possess or own.
   • There was never kyng sauff myselff that welded evir such knyghtes.
     There was never a king other than myself who ever commanded such knights.Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur Book 5.Chapter 7
4. (obsolete) To control, to guide or manage.
   • With such his chearefull speaches he doth wield / Her mind so well, that to his will she bends[…].1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
5. (obsolete) To carry out, to bring about.
   • All is weill done, God wate, weild he hys will.a. 1513, Virgil, “VIII, prologue”, in Gawin Douglas [i.e., Gavin Douglas], transl., edited by [George Dundas], The Æneid of Virgil: Translated into Scottish Verse (Bannatyne Club, Publications; 64...

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