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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
But that reconfiguration also influenced how Atlan would film scenes. — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 15 Oct. 2026 As a result, the device’s subsequent switching became more predictable, indicating that its earlier electrical activity had influenced its future behavior. — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 14 Oct. 2026 The boy acknowledged being influenced by the community but denied acting in its name, the statement said. — ABC News, 14 Oct. 2026 Another section details how Parisian architecture — including Boucheron’s current home on Place Vendôme — has influenced lines and shapes in the collections. — Fairchild Studio, Footwear News, 14 Oct. 2026 Of course, the OpenAI result’s novelty doesn’t mean it wasn’t influenced by the Spanish program. — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 13 Oct. 2026 The researchers also couldn’t fully account for differences in participants’ underlying health conditions or determine whether exercise intensity influenced the results, Schiff notes. — Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 13 Oct. 2026 Keynes influenced an entire generation of economists and policymakers. — Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 13 Oct. 2026 Rates on home loans are influenced by inflation, Federal Reserve policy and bond-market investors’ expectations for the economy, among other factors. — Alex Veiga, Chicago Tribune, 8 Oct. 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
  • French Finance Minister Roland Lescure said about 700 of the country's 10,000 supermarkets were affected.
    — JOHN LEICESTER, Arkansas Online, 15 Oct. 2026
  • But there’s a lot that scientists still don’t understand about how different trees are affected.
    — Mary Randolph, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of affected
Adjective
  • Despite his concerns about contemporary society, Tsui remains convinced that humor has an essential role to play, even when tackling the most serious subjects.
    — Lise Pedersen, Variety, 12 Oct. 2026
  • Remember the Duke lacrosse case, and remember how convinced everybody was that those young men were guilty.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 4 Oct. 2026
Definition of convinced
Verb
  • The attack has caused huge disruption to air travel and triggered a wave of cancellations for events taking place in the Saudi capital this week, with the World Petroleum Congress this week most directly impacted.
    — Leonie Kidd, CNBC, 12 Oct. 2026
  • The siblings also ran to raise funds for the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation, which is dedicated to curing spinal cord injury through research and improving the quality of life for people impacted by paralysis.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of impacted
Adjective
  • Haloed in distorted guitar and jagged synths, Wolf comes off as a champion of her own avoidance, her heroism charmingly pathetic.
    — Enzo Escober, Pitchfork, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Sometimes Paula chooses to turn the camera on herself, but the film is mostly composed of distorted moving images of contemporary Paris which, in many aspects, still looks like the version of Paris that Choi saw.
    — Thomas Patier, Artforum, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of distorted
Verb
  • While so many aspects of the Heat’s new-look roster impressed this preseason, Thompson struggled to make shots in his first preseason with Miami.
    — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 17 Oct. 2026
  • Koelsch and company were impressed enough to offer Hindoyan a five-year contract.
    — Tim Greiving, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 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
  • Each aspect of the hotel has been touched by people with deep New Orleans roots.
    — Todd Plummer, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Oct. 2026
  • All the solder connections were on the outside where the mash never touched the solder anymore.
    — Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of touched

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“Influenced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/influenced. Accessed 18 Oct. 2026.

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