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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
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 The pieces deeply influenced Yvonne Rainer and Steve Paxton, leading them to found the Judson Dance Theater, whose members would reshape modern dance over the ensuing decade in a way that continues to resonate more than half a century later. — News Desk, Artforum, 29 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 However, Palmer is careful to not become too influenced by the hive mind of the internet. — Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 29 July 2026 Your mood is influenced by the balance of neurotransmitters (chemicals that carry messages between nerves) in your body. — Heidi Moawad, Verywell Health, 29 July 2026 The Learning Leader Show One podcast that has significantly influenced my work is The Learning Leader Show. — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 28 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
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
  • Stribling has impressed during training camp and could have a significant role as a slot receiver following the departure of Jauan Jennings in free agency to the Minnesota Vikings.
    — Chris Biderman, Sacbee.com, 31 July 2026
  • The 2026 Byrdie Beauty Awards highlight the products that impressed editors the most for their innovation, performance and value.
    — Casey DelBasso, ABC News, 31 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
  • Notable deaths of 2026 A look back at the esteemed personalities who left us this year, who touched us with their innovation, creativity and humanity.
    — David Morgan, CBS News, 30 July 2026
  • That's how many companies OpenAI says were touched by its rogue model during the Hugging Face breach—not counting Hugging Face itself.
    — Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 30 July 2026
Definition of touched

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