influencing
- 01 B2 Upper Intermediate
changing or affecting the way someone thinks or the way something happens.
exerting an effect on the nature, development, or behaviour of a person or entity. Often used as a gerund or in continuous tenses to describe an ongoing process.
Simple“Social media is influencing the way young people communicate with each other.”
In context“The lobbyist was accused of influencing the committee's decision by providing selective data that favoured his client's interests.”
UsageOften takes a direct object without a preposition; avoid saying 'influencing on'.
“Control of Kordofan could affect supply routes linking SAF-held areas with western Sudan, while also influencing the RSF’s ability to move fighters and equipment between Darfur and other parts of the country.”
“Rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere may already be influencing human biology.”