Influence
Influence verb - To act upon (a person or a person's feelings) so as to cause a response.
Participate and influence are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Participate" instead a verb "Influence".
Participate
Participate verb - To take a share or part.
Influence and participate are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Influence" instead a verb "Participate".
Common collocations
| society | influence society | participate society |
| course | influence course | participate course |
| appearance | influence appearance | participate appearance |
| place | influence place | participate place |
| Other words: characters, monsters. | ||
Both words in one sentence
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Peter and Valentine Wiggin of Ender's Game participate in debates over a blogging platform which are apparently prominent enough to influence world politics as a whole.
Source: Fictional Social Network - This is because we chose not to participate in Wizardry, at the price of The Lone Power getting influence of our timeline, eventually getting to controll us entirely.
Source: WMG / Poison Oak Epileptic Trees -
Dance of Romance: In the Netherlands arc there's a dance contest where Lunlun is supposed to participate to counter the influence of a corrupt Dutch clog maker, but she has no partner.
Source: Anime / Hana no Ko Lunlun
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