Influence
Influence noun - The power to direct the thinking or behavior of others usually indirectly.
Origin
Origin noun - A point or place at which something is invented or provided.
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
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The "mecha" design of their battlesuits, vehicles, and power armour is clearly of Japanese pop-culture origin, with a substantial aquatic-form influence.
Source: Animesque -
A varied lot, be it in the areas of appearance, influence, time, origin, personality, politics or even personal lives, though a lot went to Eton and then Oxbridge.
- In Geoff Johns' post-Infinite Crisis retelling of his origin story, "Secret Origin," Abin Sur lost faith in his ring because of a prophecy foretelling that Parallax's influence on the Corps' central power battery would corrupt him, leading him to rely on a spaceship for his interplanetary voyages.
Source: Continuity Drift
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