influence
Usage
Example Sentences
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Bad Bunny has said he feels a responsibility, as someone with influence, to highlight important issues.
From BBC
They helped define the Italian operatic tradition and influenced centuries of Western music.
From Salon
This new ideological mission is notable because of Mellon’s great influence within academia, especially in hiring and promoting faculty.
They expect us to “consider the source of their ideas, or the cultural influences upon them, which are often malign and give them perverse incentives to acquire the ‘mind-forg’d manacles’ with which they live.”
One sometimes senses Kurosawa’s personal relationships influencing this list of favorites.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
