influences

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The country’s intelligence agency blamed anti-China influences from abroad for stoking youth disillusionment.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

Policymakers closely monitor inflation expectations because, generally speaking, what people think will happen to prices in the future influences wage and price-setting behavior.

From Barron's • Jun. 2, 2026

Every one of those choices influences portfolio exposures and investor outcomes.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 2, 2026

Such studies could help clinical geneticists better understand inherited diseases and reveal how environmental influences, including diet, may affect epigenetic inheritance across generations.

From Science Daily • Jun. 1, 2026

She could tell that her communiques were being distorted by influences beyond her control and that the message received never resembled the one she had sent.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende