influencing

Example Sentences

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World’s Fairs, starting in 1851, served as platforms for countries to display new technologies and ideas, influencing urban development.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 16, 2026

Stock-market returns, housing value growth, wage growth and the job market will all be key variables influencing people’s willingness to spend, he said.

From MarketWatch • May 15, 2026

We can make a difference by influencing each other—by not only contributing drops into the bucket, but by showing others that we’re doing so, and, in the process, influencing them to do the same.

From Slate • May 15, 2026

Two of those novels — ”Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Brontë and “Wuthering Heights” by Emily Brontë, are still considered masterworks, influencing subsequent generations and endlessly adapted for film and television.

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026

She doesn’t know a thing about me, yet she wants to use one song to make me into the big bad villain who is influencing her precious son.

From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas