under the influence
Example Sentences
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Findings are prone to distortion under the influence of nonpsychiatric factors.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 10, 2026
To make this possible, the research team trained a neural network to recognize how temperature patterns on the ocean surface shift and change shape under the influence of currents.
From Science Daily • Apr. 22, 2026
A major issue is the expanding bear population, which is growing fast due to an abundance of food -- including acorns, deer and boars -- under the influence of a warming climate, experts say.
From Barron's • Nov. 8, 2025
The 21-year-old truck driver arrested after a fiery crash that killed three people on the 10 Freeway in Ontario was not under the influence of drugs at the time, authorities say.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 6, 2025
Tonight she was still very much under the influence of the sermon she had preached the night before.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
