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
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
Among other things, he influentially criticized education conceived as “mere preparation for later life.”
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2017
No Grecian system of philosophy, except Platonism, entered into the Christian system so influentially as the disastrous Manichaean heresy, which Augustine combated.
From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 01 The Old Pagan Civilizations by John Lord
