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verb

past tense of influence

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Verb
  • In the past, the state's transportation and electricity infrastructure has been severely affected by extreme cold events.
    Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Lawyers for others affected by the blast did not respond to requests for comment.
    Cody Copeland, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Both Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris and President-elect Donald Trump often presented distorted views of the health of the labor market, with the Democratic angle largely focusing solely on headline labor market growth and Trump mischaracterizing the gains solely as a pandemic rebound.
    Derek Saul, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
  • The track is a nearly motionless waltz, with dark ambient stirrings of distorted guitar, wafting toward relief or death.
    Jon Pareles, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Lynch, the bizarro-baroque filmmaker who died this week, at 78, will be remembered for being a cinematic giant, for Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive as well as the warped TV soap opera Twin Peaks and its avant-garde sequel, Twin Peaks: The Return.
    Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 18 Jan. 2025
  • Throughout all of his work, perhaps most memorably in the warped noir of his television series Twin Peaks, Lynch steered composers to create music as inexplicably haunting as his moving pictures.
    Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 17 Jan. 2025
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“Influenced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/influenced. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.

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