were influencing
- past progressive of influence.
Example Sentences
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He was concerned about losing user trust if people suspected that advertisers were influencing the chatbot’s responses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026
This time around, though, other factors were influencing yields ahead of the Fed’s widely anticipated quarter-point rate reduction by the Federal Reserve — including moves in international sovereign bond markets.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 8, 2025
Using this data, the researchers were able to see how changing environmental conditions were influencing the organisms' structure and function.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 20, 2024
In short, by the end of the sixth century, both Shintoism and Buddhism were influencing the cultural makeup of Japan.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
She began to realize how much the doctor's fears of developments, which might or might not follow, were influencing her, though, happily, she was not able to influence Carol.
From A Soldier's Son by Butler, Maude M.
