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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

The walls of each gallery feature artwork—paintings, sculpture, advertisements for furniture and clothing—that gives visitors an idea of the broader trends that were influencing these car designs and French culture.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2018

Cowperwood was lingering in the city at this time, busy with a group of Eastern financiers who were influencing his contest in the state legislature of Illinois.

From The Titan by Dreiser, Theodore