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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

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

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

From Salon • Sep. 6, 2017

Men, or rather white men, factor into the stories, wonderfully and influentially so much of the time, but the stories and the viewpoint remain powerfully in the hands of the women telling them.

From The Guardian • Jul. 20, 2015

This was supplemented by a women's Covenant, which, like the men's, "had been numerously and influentially signed, about 3 or 4 per cent, of the signatories, it was said, being Liberals."

From Ulster's Stand For Union by McNeill, Ronald John