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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
This new release is said to be inspired by the Grand Canyon in Yellowstone National Park, and that the contrast between light and shadow there influenced Beam’s decision to finish two bourbons separately. — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 15 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 Raines thinks the rare double bloom influenced the spike in reservations. — Emily Tarinelli, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2026 Irving may have been influenced by German folktales about a man who slept for 20 years, or European stories of terrifying headless riders, but these stories were set in rural New York state, with a distinctly American voice and references. — Steven Johnson, Washington Post, 14 July 2026 The high tides are being influenced by an overall swell in the Pacific Ocean that’s being caused by stormy weather in the Southern Hemisphere. — Rick Hurd, Mercury News, 9 July 2026 Mortgage rates are influenced by several factors, from the Federal Reserve’s interest rate policy decisions to bond market investors’ expectations for the economy and inflation. — ABC News, 9 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
  • If someone is affected by heat, immediately transfer them to a cool and shaded area.
    — CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 16 July 2026
  • The need became more evident after the unexpected death of a City Hall colleague on February, a loss that deeply affected employees across the city, Salgado said.
    — Verónica Egui Brito July 15, Miami Herald, 15 July 2026
Definition of affected
Adjective
  • Some may continue using the drug, delay or forgo treatments proven to be effective, or remain convinced that the drug is helpful despite accumulating evidence to the contrary.
    — Dannell D. Boatman, The Conversation, 8 July 2026
  • Bullard isn't as convinced inflation will unwind and thinks the Fed may have to act soon — before the November midterm election, even if there's a perception that an increase would be politically risky.
    — Jeff Cox, CNBC, 8 July 2026
Definition of convinced
Verb
  • Those impacted in that round of layoffs included 67 central office and network office workers, seven Chicago Teachers Union positions, and 87 employees represented by SEIU Local 73, nearly all of whom were crossing guards.
    — Jeramie Bizzle, CBS News, 14 July 2026
  • The overall quality of the games will be negatively impacted, others said.
    — Ben Church, CNN Money, 13 July 2026
Definition of impacted
Adjective
  • In many cases, Kallis said, the roots of this behavior were planted long before, frequently through trauma, abuse, isolation, addiction or distorted coping mechanisms that were never confronted or healed.
    — Denise Crosby, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2026
  • Letting go of these items leads to regret for the loss of nostalgia and passing on true history for a distorted version.
    — Tessa Cooper, Southern Living, 28 June 2026
Definition of distorted
Verb
  • And Kansas rookie White impressed after not playing the previous game.
    — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 17 July 2026
  • What impressed me was that without stanchions to direct the crowd, fans wove back and forth across the field, creating an orderly line without shoving or cutting.
    — Meredith Nierman, NPR, 17 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
  • On the twisty cliffside roads of Tenerife in Spain’s Canary Islands, those 15 miles of silent propulsion weren’t touched at all.
    — Jerry Perez, The Drive, 15 July 2026
  • One boy said Busfield had touched his genitals over his clothes several times.
    — Laura Trujillo, USA Today, 15 July 2026
Definition of touched

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