influencing

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With a further psychiatric assessment needed by the prosecution a month later, prosecutor Nicola Potts asked Gibson to travel up to Northumberland in person to stop James influencing the hearing.

From BBC • May 16, 2026

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

Later in the war, he acted as one of the Union army's most senior doctors, influencing the surgical treatments of wounded soldiers.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow