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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 influencing
Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
The pandemic also pushed Afi Maita to launch her own business, both in fashion styling and influencing.
—Corina Vanek, AZCentral.com, 31 July 2025
Ted Powers, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 2025
The ripple effects of these delays extend beyond individual cases, influencing public trust and safety.
—Kirsten Fiscus, Nashville Tennessean, 29 Sep. 2025
Jon Devine, senior economist at Cotton Incorporated, keeps key stakeholders in the textile and investment communities informed via timely market analyses of commodity economics and factors influencing their stability.
—Sj Guest Editorial, Sourcing Journal, 26 Sep. 2025
Its experts know that identifying the factors influencing home prices goes beyond bare-bones data like bedroom or bathroom counts.
—Mary Beth Eastman, USA Today, 25 Sep. 2025
Out of pocket costs are also set to increase next year, and there are a number of other changes, potentially influencing what Americans decide to do about enrolling for health insurance plans for 2026.
—Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Sep. 2025
Our bodies help choose and nurture the microbial mix living inside us, and that mix, in turn, keeps influencing our health.
—New Atlas, 24 Sep. 2025
Miami, real name Caresha Brownlee, credits Combs with influencing her personal development and professional success.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2025
The most obvious factor that could be influencing these results is the reason people take Tylenol during pregnancy in the first place.
—Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 22 Sep. 2025
Verb
Negotiation and influencing skills are critical capabilities that the candidates can highlight as a testament to their ability to navigate the organizational dynamics, maneuver tricky situations and secure buy-in from detractors, if any.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
The pandemic also pushed Afi Maita to launch her own business, both in fashion styling and influencing.
—Corina Vanek, AZCentral.com, 31 July 2025
Noun
Together with other partner proteins, TOR controls how cells respond to nutrients, stress and environmental signals, thereby influencing major processes such as protein synthesis and immune function.
—Ted Powers, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 2025
The ripple effects of these delays extend beyond individual cases, influencing public trust and safety.
—Kirsten Fiscus, Nashville Tennessean, 29 Sep. 2025
Jon Devine, senior economist at Cotton Incorporated, keeps key stakeholders in the textile and investment communities informed via timely market analyses of commodity economics and factors influencing their stability.
—Sj Guest Editorial, Sourcing Journal, 26 Sep. 2025
Its experts know that identifying the factors influencing home prices goes beyond bare-bones data like bedroom or bathroom counts.
—Mary Beth Eastman, USA Today, 25 Sep. 2025
Out of pocket costs are also set to increase next year, and there are a number of other changes, potentially influencing what Americans decide to do about enrolling for health insurance plans for 2026.
—Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Sep. 2025
Our bodies help choose and nurture the microbial mix living inside us, and that mix, in turn, keeps influencing our health.
—New Atlas, 24 Sep. 2025
Miami, real name Caresha Brownlee, credits Combs with influencing her personal development and professional success.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2025
The most obvious factor that could be influencing these results is the reason people take Tylenol during pregnancy in the first place.
—Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 22 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for influencing
Verb
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Some of these actions are affecting pediatricians’ vaccine purchasing directly.—
Katherine J. Wu,
The Atlantic,
3 Oct. 2025
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Here are stories about how the impasse is affecting North Carolina, from paychecks and furloughs to shuttered services.—
Briah Lumpkins,
Charlotte Observer,
3 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Could her body handle the hip-swaying, leg-kicking, and straight-up flying through the air?—
Erica Sloan,
SELF,
30 Sep. 2025
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Yet somehow, in a medium of heavy copper, Fischl captures the lithe, swaying, physical vitality of Ashe, as well as the high-mindedness of the man who was so committed to social causes.—
Sally Jenkins,
The Atlantic,
30 Aug. 2025
Verb
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The largest layoffs came from Air Wisconsin and Saputo Cheese USA, impacting 252 and 240 workers respectively.—
Ricardo Torres,
jsonline.com,
1 Oct. 2025
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Not even a month ago, Sasaki had a hurt shoulder and dim prospects for impacting the Dodgers in 2025.—
Fabian Ardaya,
New York Times,
30 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Extracting valuable hypotheses requires careful prompting, iterative feedback, and a willingness to engage in a kind of dialogue with the AI, notes Swanson.—
Elie Dolgin,
IEEE Spectrum,
25 Sep. 2025
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By generating comprehensive solutions with minimal prompting, ChatGPT-5 removes the need for these mental rehearsals, creating a skill gap between competence and performance.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes.com,
10 Aug. 2025
Verb
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So far, Hazelton said, the new Google DeepMind ensemble, which has been impressing forecasters with its accuracy, is split on whether the closest system could recurve out into the ocean or make landfall somewhere along the Southeast coast.—
Doyle Rice,
USA Today,
25 Sep. 2025
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Strike a balance between impressing your friends with your culinary skills and tablescape prowess and outsourcing dishes and being flexible—no formal dining room necessary.—
Cameron Beall,
Southern Living,
24 Sep. 2025
Noun
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There is agency at work in this seduction—not his, not mine, but theirs.—
Gary Greenberg,
New Yorker,
27 Sep. 2025
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The whole scene is a masterclass in femme seduction, the kind that could have only been directed by a lesbian.—
James Factora,
Them.,
26 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Any area where people are touching the same surfaces can be a risk, and people can get infected from touching items in those areas.—
Ashley J. DiMella,
FOXNews.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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The broad market index started the day modestly higher, touching a new all-time intraday high, before fizzling a bit and trading near the flatline.—
Kevin Stankiewicz,Morgan Chittum,
CNBC,
2 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Merlo set up meetings with Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill, contacted State Department officials, and spoke to reporters at The New York Times, Fox News and other outlets, lobbying records show.—
T. Christian Miller,
ProPublica,
30 Sep. 2025
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But lobbying reports filed with the City Clerk’s Office show that the hotel, housing and marina developers were meeting privately with city officials as early as January.—
Jeff McDonald,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 Sep. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Influencing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/influencing. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.
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