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Ellison, 28, testified that Bankman-Fried directed her while she was chief executive of Alameda Research to commit fraud as he pursued ambitions to lead huge companies, spend money influentially and run for U.S. president someday.

From Washington Times • Nov. 2, 2023

Baldwin had been a powerful voice of the Harlem Renaissance; Davis was the voice that had whispered most influentially in Talley’s ear.

From Washington Post • Feb. 11, 2023

Among other things, he influentially criticized education conceived as “mere preparation for later life.”

From Salon • Sep. 6, 2017

He says he is inspired by the “marriage of the human to the machine”, and by the work of gender theorist Judith Butler, who has written influentially on the body as a site of performance.

From The Guardian • Nov. 23, 2015

Few of these factors appear above the threshold of consciousness, though they are continually and influentially operative.

From Nature Mysticism by Mercer, John Edward