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to act upon (a person or a person's feelings) so as to cause a response
the news reports of the devastating flood influenced a great many people to make contributions for food and supplies
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Recent Examples of influenced
Scott M. Reid, Oc Register, 30 May 2026
Over the last decade, deep political divisions have influenced the way people view the nation’s history.
—Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 29 May 2026
Offer availability, placement, and display are determined by the third party and may be influenced by compensation and other factors.
—Liz Knueven, CNBC, 28 May 2026
This profile could include previous purchases, preferred product categories and even information about milestone events such as anniversaries or celebrations that influenced past transactions.
—Guy Yehiav, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
Mortgage rates are influenced by several factors, from the Federal Reserve’s interest rate policy decisions to bond market investors’ expectations for the economy and inflation.
—ABC News, 28 May 2026
Guadalajara was influenced by Kinky, Sussie 4, Belanova.
—Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2026
The idea that a mega catastrophe could create an opportunity to experience jouissance—surrender to bliss—profoundly influenced me.
—The Week Us, TheWeek, 20 May 2026
Verb
But Serna and his coaches were also influenced by Kimball’s State double a year earlier.
—Scott M. Reid, Oc Register, 30 May 2026
Over the last decade, deep political divisions have influenced the way people view the nation’s history.
—Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 29 May 2026
Offer availability, placement, and display are determined by the third party and may be influenced by compensation and other factors.
—Liz Knueven, CNBC, 28 May 2026
This profile could include previous purchases, preferred product categories and even information about milestone events such as anniversaries or celebrations that influenced past transactions.
—Guy Yehiav, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
Mortgage rates are influenced by several factors, from the Federal Reserve’s interest rate policy decisions to bond market investors’ expectations for the economy and inflation.
—ABC News, 28 May 2026
Guadalajara was influenced by Kinky, Sussie 4, Belanova.
—Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2026
The idea that a mega catastrophe could create an opportunity to experience jouissance—surrender to bliss—profoundly influenced me.
—The Week Us, TheWeek, 20 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for influenced
Adjective
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Most teams, in fact, decided from the start that pitchers were not in the best position and were liable to be too emotionally swayed to be entrusted with ABS challenges.—
Kevin Acee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 May 2026
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As fans stood for the opening run, a sprawling 23-piece backing ensemble — including six band members, eight backing vocalists plus returning Church muse Joanna Cotten, and a mini-orchestra with four horns and four strings — some swayed.—
Theoden Janes,
Charlotte Observer,
6 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Mayor Brandon Johnson came to this office with something genuinely rare — authentic credibility in the communities most affected by this crisis.—
Desmon Yancy,
Chicago Tribune,
2 June 2026
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According to Microsoft, its quantum team used agentic AI to automate complex measurements, optimize fabrication processes, analyze decades of research data, and uncover previously unnoticed problems that affected device performance.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
2 June 2026
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The initial mission of the collaboration, the NASA Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) will have visited the asteroids earlier and impacted Dimorphos with sufficient momentum to effect a measurable change in its orbit.—
Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
30 May 2026
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One field heavily impacted by AI is computer science.—
Steve Banker,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2026
Adjective
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The people who disagree with you are reading their own custom edition, equally convinced, equally fed.—
Jodie Cook,
Forbes.com,
31 May 2026
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Polling, however, shows that the public is not quite convinced.—
Mabinty Quarshie,
The Washington Examiner,
30 May 2026
Verb
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His teammates and coaches are impressed by that, but there is something more.—
Matt Gelb,
New York Times,
28 May 2026
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It’s been her developmental potential, paired with a veteran’s on-court demeanor, that has impressed her new teammates so far.—
Nathan Canilao,
Mercury News,
26 May 2026
Adjective
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Pointing out distorted thinking and driving cognitive reframing.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
24 May 2026
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These aphids reproduce rapidly and can quickly get out of control and overtake a rose bush, resulting in distorted growth.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
20 May 2026
Verb
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Between September and December 2020, Xu replaced the contents of coffee capsules, whiskey bottles and water bottles in colleagues’ offices with methylmercury chloride, an acute toxin that can be fatal if swallowed, inhaled or touched.—
Sylvie Zhuang,
CNN Money,
28 May 2026
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Last year Amazon’s 14,000-plus layoffs touched nearly every part of the business, yet engineers were hit the hardest with job cuts, as nearly 40% of the 4,700 layoffs across New York, California, and New Jersey were engineering roles.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
28 May 2026
Adjective
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Last year, 30 percent of lefties were pronator-biased (and therefore more predisposed to throwing a good non-splitter changeup) versus 26 percent of righties.—
Eno Sarris,
New York Times,
11 May 2026
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Oracles are by their nature enigmatic, obscure, gnomic, a mode that the aleatory perambulations of the Eureka engine would seem predisposed toward producing, but narrative also has a venerable tradition of being mechanically generated, despite the seeming complexity of plot.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 Jan. 2026
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