as in swayed
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as in affected
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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Verb
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Reach out to your waste collection company to see how the service for your address is affected.—
Natalie Wallington,
Kansas City Star,
8 Jan. 2025 -
City officials said at least 550 homes in Pasadena are affected by the evacuation orders, which cover large portions of the city’s northern neighborhoods along with most of eastern Altadena and nearly the entirety of Sierra Madre.—
Antonio Pequeño IV,
Forbes,
8 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Her sound has exploded into a kind of psychedelic opera, first spawning from emo rap, then eventually evolving into distorted electropop.—
The New Yorker,
The New Yorker,
24 Jan. 2025
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The house itself is an architectural anomaly, the distorted vision of a distorted mind.—
Gayle Sequeira,
Vulture,
20 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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But unlike our increasingly warped and rage-baited algorithms, BLKNWS is an informative encounter.—
Lovia Gyarkye,
The Hollywood Reporter,
29 Jan. 2025
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The last warped tour wrapped in 2019 with three stops in Mountain View, California, Cleveland, Ohio, and Atlantic City, New Jersey.—
Anthony Robledo,
USA TODAY,
28 Jan. 2025
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“Influenced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/influenced. Accessed 6 Feb. 2025.
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