influential
adjective
having or exerting influence, especially great influence.
influentially
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a word derived from
influential.
Example Sentences
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He’d been a regular on “Hollywood Squares,” a frequent guest on “The Tonight Show,” and — most influentially — one of the decade’s coolest make-believe cops.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
Scores of art projects followed, solo work and collaborations with local painters, musicians, writers, dancers, weavers and, perhaps most influentially, filmmakers.
From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2024
She described him as “very ambitious” and envisioning eventually leading huge companies and using his money influentially.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 10, 2023
He then went on to become a steadfastly independent auteur and, perhaps most influentially, a longtime film professor at Howard, where he mentored such directors and cinematographers as Ernest Dickerson, Malik Sayeed and Bradford Young.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 23, 2021
Would, if influentially connected, be employed in the two last capacities by a modern European State on the strength of his success in the first.
From Caesar and Cleopatra by Bernard Shaw
