Influence
Influence verb - To act upon (a person or a person's feelings) so as to cause a response.
Usage example: the news reports of the devastating flood influenced a great many people to make contributions for food and supplies
Reach is a synonym for influence. In some cases you can use "Reach" instead the word "Influence" as a verb or a noun.
Reach
Reach verb - To act upon (a person or a person's feelings) so as to cause a response.
Usage example: the movie adaptation just didn't reach me the way the novel did
Influence is a synonym for reach in jurisdiction topic. Sometimes you can use "Influence" instead the word "Reach" as a verb or a noun, if it concerns topics such as extent, communicate with.
How words are described
| good | good influence | good reach |
| high | high influence | high reach |
| musical | musical influence | musical reach |
| considerable | considerable influence | considerable reach |
| Other adjectives: powerful, actual, massive, large, big, increased, great, enormous, huge, little, political, significant, greater, greatest, global. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- The Olympian Gods (the primary pantheon dealt with on the show), were shown to have a reach and influence as far as the Middle East, and were considered the greatest of any gods in the show, while others were shown as powerful, but not nearly on the Olympian scale.
Source: Gods Need Prayer Badly - With Area X having existed for 30 years and little new learnt, funding to the Southern Reach is being cut and increasingly more influence is given to the army instead.
- Krona, whilst primarily a Green Lantern villain, is ultimately the biggest bad of the setting, or at least one of, in terms of the reach of his influence.
Source: Big Bad / Comic Books
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