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verb

past tense of influence

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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
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
Verb
  • Earlier screening may be appropriate for those with additional risk factors, including a family history of diabetes, a history of gestational diabetes or PCOS and membership in a population disproportionately affected by diabetes.
    Emily Cegielski, Flow Space, 29 July 2026
  • To figure out how this break affected ribosome function, the researchers engineered it into Escherichia coli bacteria.
    Cody Cottier, Scientific American, 29 July 2026
Adjective
  • Trade experts say these Section 301 tariffs may be harder to overturn, even if countries change labor laws, because Washington must be convinced enforcement meets its demands.
    Mae Anderson, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2026
  • The medical methodology underpinning everything here was developed by Dr Franz Xaver Mayr, a 19th-century Austrian physician who became convinced that the health of the digestive system was the key to overall wellbeing.
    Jamie Timson, TheWeek, 24 July 2026
Verb
  • Hampton works with a network of volunteers to deliver boxes of groceries to immigrant families impacted by the task force, many of whom are still limiting their time out of the house to only the most essential activities.
    Kat Lonsdorf, NPR, 27 July 2026
  • Frame the discussion by outlining which existing projects will be impacted, rather than just expressing stress.
    Andy Molinsky, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026
Adjective
  • When war finally brought slavery to an end, this distorted view of Washington ceased to be of use as a political emblem.
    John Garrison Marks, The Atlantic, 25 July 2026
  • Human faces emerge from distorted forms that appear stretched through time, echoing motifs found in Chan’s earlier titanium sculptures.
    Anthony DeMarco, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
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
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
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

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