counterinfluence

noun

Definition of counterinfluencenext
as in influence

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  1. influence
  2. leverage
  3. in
  4. credit
  5. sway
  6. pull
Noun
  • Paris Reuters — The Cour de Cassation, France’s highest court, upheld on Wednesday former President Nicolas Sarkozy’s conviction for corruption and influence peddling.
    Reuters, CNN, 18 Dec. 2024
  • He was found guilty of corruption and influence peddling by both a Paris court in 2021 and an appeals court in 2023 for trying to bribe a magistrate in exchange for information about a legal case in which he was implicated.
    Sylvie Corbet, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2024
Definition of influence
Noun
  • Based on the amount of debt to revenue backing the bonds, MLB has the lowest debt leverage of the three major leagues Fitch rates, at 1.8 times.
    Brendan Coffey, Sportico.com, 26 Dec. 2024
  • In December, as options to get RFK through the Senate started to narrow, Maryland’s leverage in the matter grew.
    Meagan Flynn, Baltimore Sun, 26 Dec. 2024
Definition of leverage
Noun
  • Join 29 others in the comments View Comments The board just celebrated the swearing-in of a new VOA director, Michael Abramowitz, a few months ago.
    Brian Stelter, CNN, 12 Dec. 2024
  • The only South Korean president of the last two decades who did not end his or her term in a dramatic fashion was Yoon’s direct predecessor, Moon Jae-in.
    Timothy Nerozzi, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 4 Dec. 2024
Definition of in
Noun
  • And there has been no allegation that the credits Long claimed for his clients were inappropriate.
    Howard Gleckman, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
  • One estimate has found that increasing the credit to $5,000 per child would cost between $106 billion and $241 billion in 2025.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 17 Dec. 2024
Definition of credit
Noun
  • In workplaces near and away, empty cubicles gleam and Zoom calls hold sway.
    Ann Kowal Smith, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Set in a speculative future in which the supply chain has failed and a lethal drug holds sway, Leif Enger’s latest novel steers a harrowing course through a broken world.
    Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Dec. 2024
Definition of sway
Noun
  • After all these years, the elemental pull of Dumas’s tale remains irresistible.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Paredes, under club control for the next three seasons, is a notorious pull hitter and perfect fit for Minute Maid Park.
    Ken Rosenthal, The Athletic, 15 Dec. 2024
Definition of pull
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