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adjective

as in swayed

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verb

past tense of influence
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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Recent Examples of influenced
Verb
The precise impact of any individual funding reduction is difficult to quantify because the Ebola outbreak and its spread has been influenced by many factors, including political turmoil, armed conflict and mistrust in healthcare workers. — Omer Awan, Forbes.com, 24 July 2026 The latest report by the country's public ‌health ⁠institute says transmission remains sustained, with recent fluctuations in cases likely influenced by reporting delays and ongoing data consolidation. — ABC News, 23 July 2026 Many variables, such as how large ancient ethnolinguistic groups were and how agriculture influenced them, are impossible to establish with certainty. — Cody Cottier, Scientific American, 23 July 2026 In our country, artists first as immigrants, but also artists moving to different artistic centers and being influenced by different artistic centers. — Michelle F. Solomon, Miami Herald, 23 July 2026 Like coffee or wine, tea is an agricultural product whose flavor is influenced by where and how it’s grown as much as how it’s handled after harvest. — Henri Hollis, AJC.com, 23 July 2026 Offer availability, placement, and display are determined by the third party and may be influenced by compensation and other factors. — Liz Knueven, CNBC, 15 July 2026 The commercial value of those partnerships has even influenced tournament policies. — Nethumi Kannangara, Sportico.com, 15 July 2026 Compulsive chewing may also be influenced by genetics or early life experience. — Ryan Brennan, Sacbee.com, 15 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for influenced
  1. swayed
  2. affected
  3. convinced
  4. impacted
  5. distorted
  6. impressed
  7. predisposed
  8. touched
Adjective
  • One man who isn’t swayed is Japan’s richest investment mogul, SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son.
    — Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 16 July 2026
  • 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
Definition of swayed
Verb
  • Contrast that with the Premier League, in which there were three such errors in the 380 games last season, only one of which materially affected a match result.
    — Graham Scott, New York Times, 22 July 2026
  • The leader is also part of the garden, affected by its incentives, information filters, history and blind spots.
    — Gerald J. Leonard, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
Definition of affected
Adjective
  • Markets don’t seem convinced that relief is around the corner.
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 20 July 2026
  • During construction, Wright insisted that his design would perform, but on-site builders were less convinced and added more structural steel to the concrete slabs without the architect’s knowledge.
    — Elizabeth Fazzare, Architectural Digest, 14 July 2026
Definition of convinced
Verb
  • At first, it was feared to be a broken collarbone, which would have impacted his Premier League preparations.
    — Matt Woosnam, New York Times, 21 July 2026
  • One of the primary goals of the Artist Rights Alliance is to expand the dialogue to include more people who will be directly impacted by AI.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 20 July 2026
Definition of impacted
Adjective
  • Though the song is heavily acoustic, its distorted guitar solos hail squarely from the realm of harder rock, and the artificial choirs that seep in toward the end seem to call out to the symphonic citadels of the Norwegian black metallers.
    — Sam Goldner, Pitchfork, 19 July 2026
  • Sector leaders have warned for years that judging nonprofits too heavily by overhead can create distorted incentives.
    — Matt Emma, USA Today, 16 July 2026
Definition of distorted
Verb
  • What impressed me most about Culp was his versatility and originality.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 24 July 2026
  • But for each team member’s limited time in front of the cameras, one name kept coming up again and again when asked who has impressed so far this offseason.
    — Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 23 July 2026
Definition of impressed
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
Definition of predisposed
Verb
  • The Morning Show star was touched after Cox shared a celebratory photo dump on July 21 revealing that her upcoming film Evil Genius had scored a big honor.
    — Lara Walsh, InStyle, 23 July 2026
  • Content Volume Is Outpacing Visibility Bynder’s 2026 State of DAM research found that three-quarters of content is now AI-touched, with near-universal use expected within 12 months.
    — Gary Drenik, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
Definition of touched

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