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verb

past tense of influence

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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
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
  • Contrast that with the Premier League, in which there were three such errors in the 380 games last season, only one of which materially affected a match result.
    Graham Scott, New York Times, 22 July 2026
  • So while some groups of animals have little infection, others may see up to 90% of koalas affected.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 21 July 2026
Adjective
  • Markets don’t seem convinced that relief is around the corner.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 20 July 2026
  • During construction, Wright insisted that his design would perform, but on-site builders were less convinced and added more structural steel to the concrete slabs without the architect’s knowledge.
    Elizabeth Fazzare, Architectural Digest, 14 July 2026
Verb
  • At first, it was feared to be a broken collarbone, which would have impacted his Premier League preparations.
    Matt Woosnam, New York Times, 21 July 2026
  • One of the primary goals of the Artist Rights Alliance is to expand the dialogue to include more people who will be directly impacted by AI.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 20 July 2026
Adjective
  • Though the song is heavily acoustic, its distorted guitar solos hail squarely from the realm of harder rock, and the artificial choirs that seep in toward the end seem to call out to the symphonic citadels of the Norwegian black metallers.
    Sam Goldner, Pitchfork, 19 July 2026
  • Sector leaders have warned for years that judging nonprofits too heavily by overhead can create distorted incentives.
    Matt Emma, USA Today, 16 July 2026
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
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
  • 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

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“Influenced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/influenced. Accessed 22 Jul. 2026.

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