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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
Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 3 Apr. 2026
Time and time again, pioneers of new platforms have also bought up content and influenced conversations about those platforms.
—Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 3 Apr. 2026
Our Revolutionary fathers were influenced by the Bible, particularly as Scripture was interpreted through British common law.
—James O. Cunningham, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2026
But she is most heavily influenced, the film suggests, by the sheer ubiquity of school shootings and gun culture, which has contaminated America at large with a free-floating psychic residue of mass violence.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2026
The domestication of wild animals, beginning with the dog, heavily influenced human evolution.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026
Consider timing around market catalysts Silver prices are influenced by a mix of factors, including industrial demand, investor sentiment and macroeconomic trends.
—Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 2 Apr. 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, 2 Apr. 2026
His background at Brider and high-end Boulder restaurant Oak at Fourteenth influenced the offerings.
—Max Scheinblum, Denver Post, 27 Mar. 2026
Verb
During the last five years, coaches who’ve remained in their college-level women's basketball jobs have seen their salaries rise by 45%—likely influenced by Staley's decision to fight for higher pay via nontraditional negotiating methods.
—Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 3 Apr. 2026
Time and time again, pioneers of new platforms have also bought up content and influenced conversations about those platforms.
—Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 3 Apr. 2026
Our Revolutionary fathers were influenced by the Bible, particularly as Scripture was interpreted through British common law.
—James O. Cunningham, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2026
But she is most heavily influenced, the film suggests, by the sheer ubiquity of school shootings and gun culture, which has contaminated America at large with a free-floating psychic residue of mass violence.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2026
The domestication of wild animals, beginning with the dog, heavily influenced human evolution.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026
Consider timing around market catalysts Silver prices are influenced by a mix of factors, including industrial demand, investor sentiment and macroeconomic trends.
—Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 2 Apr. 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, 2 Apr. 2026
His background at Brider and high-end Boulder restaurant Oak at Fourteenth influenced the offerings.
—Max Scheinblum, Denver Post, 27 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for influenced
Adjective
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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
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When betting on a startup’s future potential, Graham is typically more swayed by his impression of its founders than the idea behind their business, the co-founder of startup accelerator Y Combinator wrote in a series of posts on social media platform X on August 10.—
Tom Huddleston Jr.,
CNBC,
18 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Our team will continue exploring ways to reduce tick exposure that will benefit homeowners and affected communities.—
Emily Bache,
The Conversation,
31 Mar. 2026
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Still, the attack may have affected numerous software developers considering Axios’s reach.—
Michael Kan,
PC Magazine,
31 Mar. 2026
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Miranda represents Roxbury, and parts of other neighborhoods like Dorchester and Jamaica Plain that would be impacted by the City of Boston’s $325 million public-private plan to rebuild White Stadium for the Legacy, a new National Women’s Soccer League team playing its inaugural season this year.—
Gayla Cawley,
Boston Herald,
5 Apr. 2026
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The cave system was significantly impacted by construction of the Maya Train under former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, intended to connect Tulum and other tourist destinations to remote areas.—
Ryan Brennan
April 4,
Miami Herald,
4 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Tommie and her family were later convinced to move to the federal Indian reservation in what is now Hollywood, according to a Sun Sentinel news article from 2015.—
Scott Travis,
Sun Sentinel,
4 Apr. 2026
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Friedman, best known for his work on economic mobility with the Harvard economist Raj Chetty, has become convinced that the most important thing a student gets from an Ivy Plus education isn’t instruction or prestige or even connections.—
Rose Horowitch,
The Atlantic,
4 Apr. 2026
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Everyone in Washington’s lineup had at least one hit, and Foster Griffin impressed in his first MLB action since 2022.—
Danielle Allentuck,
Washington Post,
31 Mar. 2026
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Seeing how well Caldwell handled himself on the rock immediately impressed her.—
Namir Khaliq,
Big Think,
31 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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By 1996, every band with a guitar felt the pressure to crank its amps as loud as possible, and even indie pop fans heard the clean jangle of prior years give way to the distorted crunch and Psychocandy worship of bands like Black Tambourine and Henry’s Dress.—
David Glickman,
Pitchfork,
27 Mar. 2026
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Transcription’s third section, in certain respects a distorted mirror of the first, is somehow even more about dads and Apple products.—
Hannah Gold,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Mar. 2026
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Authorities urged anyone who touched or may have been bitten by this bat to call the Alameda County Public Health Acute Communicable Disease Program at 510-267-3250 and immediately seek medical care.—
Carlos E. Castañeda,
CBS News,
2 Apr. 2026
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The man hadn’t touched his vehicle before shots were fired, according to the lawsuit.—
Caroline Zimmerman,
Kansas City Star,
2 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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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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Are older pop fans more predisposed to embrace The Life of a Showgirl than younger ones?—
Andrew Unterberger,
Billboard,
11 Dec. 2025
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“Influenced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/influenced. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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