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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
Sign-ups influenced by AI tools made up close to four times the share of Stripe's new accounts in 2026 as in January 2025. — Boaz Sobrado, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026 That doesn’t mean I can’t be influenced by the new artistic direction fashion is taking, though. — Bianca Kratky, Glamour, 6 Aug. 2026 The rise of Black power influenced Chicano activism, and many Mexican Americans increasingly shed illusions that they could be seen as white, at least legally so, and rejected assimilationist impulses. — Eladio Bobadilla, Mercury News, 6 Aug. 2026 While retrograde, however, Saturn puts a magnifying glass on everything from past goals to the fears and disappointments that could have influenced your decisions. — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 6 Aug. 2026 This $tarface album is influenced by the sound of the early to mid ‘80s, which is like peak ‘80s to me. — Mikey Fresh, VIBE.com, 6 Aug. 2026 And 42 percent believe online reviews may be fake or influenced by AI. — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 6 Aug. 2026 Nund Rishi was influenced in part by the 14th-century Shaiva Hindu mystic and poet Lal Ded, one of Kashmir’s most revered spiritual figures. — Peter Dziedzic, The Conversation, 30 July 2026 Mold exposure is a recurring problem in the wake of hurricanes, floods and other natural disasters influenced by climate change, researchers have found. — ABC News, 29 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
  • Wednesday's meeting saw more than 60 members of the public address the AQMD board to explain how the ongoing situation has affected them.
    — Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 6 Aug. 2026
  • The survivor provided a powerful statement at Puga’s sentencing on how his acts had affected her, prosecutors said.
    — Clifford Ward, Chicago Tribune, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of affected
Adjective
  • And Smith, who has stayed in shape this offseason, prefers to feel fully convinced about his decision when the time arrives.
    — Alec Lewis, New York Times, 31 July 2026
  • The country is becoming less and less convinced that its soldiers can win and that Putin has a realistic plan.
    — Alexander Gabuev, Foreign Affairs, 31 July 2026
Definition of convinced
Verb
  • Policy overlap Federal policies enacted in 2022 aimed to steer clean-energy investments toward communities impacted by coal plant closures, yet data centers are inheriting these sites instead.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 3 Aug. 2026
  • The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services said both people had underlying health conditions that may have been impacted by the intestinal illness and dehydration.
    — Sudhin Thanawala, Chicago Tribune, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of impacted
Adjective
  • The same distorted numbers apply here for the mid-week releases (Far From Home, Spider-Man 2 and The Amazing Spider-Man) but again, none of this changes the fact that even adjusted for inflation, Brand New Day is the clear winner.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026
  • And my aim in this interview is to … take off the terrible mask which was placed on our face by terrible forces, some of them, of course, forces which work on it all the time to tell a distorted story.
    — Amelie Botbol, FOXNews.com, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of distorted
Verb
  • Defensively, Oviedo transfer Hayden Harper and youngster Bret Smith have impressed in preseason practice, which will help deal with the loss of Jaylen Lowman, who was second in the state for interceptions last year with 10.
    — Chris Hays, The Orlando Sentinel, 7 Aug. 2026
  • He always has been impressed by how the game never seems to speed up on Gausman.
    — Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of impressed
Adjective
  • Some people are more predisposed to being in a state of sustained levels of stress, such as individuals with neurodivergent brains – who also often also have sleep disorders.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 7 Aug. 2026
  • 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
Definition of predisposed
Verb
  • When governance is embedded in the data itself, organizations can generate authoritative and auditable records of the data that every agent touched, when it was accessed and under what policy conditions.
    — Rick Vanover, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
  • In Hama, the wounds are 44 years old; the city was hollowed out, every family touched by loss.
    — Lina Sergie Attar, Time, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of touched

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