influential person
Example Sentences
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The transaction instantly transformed Edward Rogers into the most influential person in Canadian professional sports, with his company now owning all of the major teams in the nation’s largest city.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
She doesn’t like it when “an influential person actively strives to take rights away from other people,” as she put it.
From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2025
But the most influential person in the room stands in the shadows behind a turntable.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2024
“Rosalynn is my best friend … the perfect extension of me, probably the most influential person in my life,” Jimmy Carter told aides during their White House years, which spanned from 1977-1981.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 19, 2023
Perhaps the most influential person ever associated with Samos was Pythagoras,* a contemporary of Polycrates in the sixth century b.c.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
