Influence
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| high | high influence | high pressure |
| positive | positive influence | positive pressure |
| considerable | considerable influence | considerable pressure |
| heavy | heavy influence | heavy pressure |
| Other adjectives: strong, massive, increased, great, enormous, huge, little, slight, psychic, social, mental, political, outside, less, negative, immense, tremendous, growing, cultural, economic. | ||
Common collocations
| life | influence life | pressure life |
| someone | influence someone | pressure someone |
| government | influence government | pressure government |
| actions | influence actions | pressure actions |
| Other words: anyone. | ||
Both words in one sentence
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The United States didn't want European warships intruding into the American sphere of influence; instead, the Europeans would ask the US to send a gunboat to apply pressure on their behalf.
Source: Gunboat Diplomacy - The protagonist is surrounded by "cool" and powerful friends who are a bad influence on him/her, and under the peer pressure and in his hopes of winning their approval he commits more and more questionable acts.
Source: Peer Pressure Makes You Evil -
The Japanese government is grappling with intensified external (Asia geopolitics) and internal (economic/social) problems, and there is mounting pressure from within Japan to return to the days when it exerted influence through military power and strength.
Source: Video Game / Neotokyo
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