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Adjective
His theories have become more influential in recent years.
My parents have been the most influential people in my life.
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James Pearce, New York Times, 10 May 2025
Second: Pick up a piece of paper and write down the five people outside your immediate family that have been the most influential people in your life.
—Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 9 May 2025
Vanda Felbab-Brown, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2017
The pattern began in the Russian leader’s earliest days, when Boris A. Berezovsky, an oligarch influential in Mr. Putin’s rise, ran afoul of him and fled, treated for years as a public enemy before his death in Britain in 2013 under murky circumstances.
—Paul Sonne, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2023
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Adjective
The Liverpool academy graduate, then 24, had spoken publicly about his desire to one day captain his boyhood club and had become an increasingly influential and vocal presence in the dressing room.
—James Pearce, New York Times, 10 May 2025
Second: Pick up a piece of paper and write down the five people outside your immediate family that have been the most influential people in your life.
—Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 9 May 2025
Noun
To secure support from the elders and influentials, potential parliamentarians were reputed to have paid tens of thousands of dollars for a vote.
—Vanda Felbab-Brown, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2017
The pattern began in the Russian leader’s earliest days, when Boris A. Berezovsky, an oligarch influential in Mr. Putin’s rise, ran afoul of him and fled, treated for years as a public enemy before his death in Britain in 2013 under murky circumstances.
—Paul Sonne, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2023
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“Influential.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/influential. Accessed 17 May. 2025.
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