adj.
VERBS
▪ be , prove
▪ become
ADVERB
▪ extremely , fairly , very , etc.
▪ deeply , enormously , especially , highly , hugely , immensely , particularly
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This was a highly ~ work.
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As a writer she was hugely ~.
▪ increasingly
▪ potentially
▪ widely
▪ politically
PREPOSITION
▪ in
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The group was ~ in setting up the new schools.
Influential is used with these nouns: ↑ article , ↑ artist , ↑ book , ↑ commentator , ↑ critic , ↑ economist , ↑ figure , ↑ leader , ↑ member , ↑ newspaper , ↑ paper , ↑ patron , ↑ politician , ↑ position , ↑ report , ↑ role , ↑ sculptor , ↑ text , ↑ thinker , ↑ work , ↑ writer , ↑ writing