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impulse

[im-puhls] / ˈɪm pʌls /




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That White House staffers apparently felt comfortable anonymously attacking Holmes in personal terms suggests that the impulse has trickled down too.

From Slate Aug. 18, 2026

The new head coach underscored that it can be easy for impulse and emotion to take over, but uplifting one another and letting mistakes refine you rather than define you is integral to success.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 7, 2026

It’s an admirable impulse — and one rooted in a genuine sense of civic duty.

From MarketWatch Aug. 3, 2026

But it’s the actors who execute their vision by playing off of each other and leaning into creative impulse when the scripted scene or real-time audience reaction calls for it.

From Salon Jul. 30, 2026

“Thank you again for all your help. I hope your creative difficulties are over soon. In fact, I believe they will be,” Penelope added on impulse.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood

He is renowned for his precise and restrained use of language, delivering provocative truths about people’s ugliest impulses and asking the audience to laugh at them.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 5, 2026

But it’s also a story about, say, how a creature’s loneliness might make him greedy and petulant, and how sometimes the best solution is to feed someone’s heart as opposed to their impulses.

From Salon Jul. 8, 2026

Eurozone government bond yields edged lower, tracking their Treasury peers, with little in the way of new impulses for the eurozone this week.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 6, 2026

Ammons reacted uneasily to Bloom’s praise and felt the critic failed to recognize his poetic impulses.

From The Wall Street Journal May 29, 2026

The challenge then becomes timing the electrical impulses so they energize the gap at the very moment the particles cross, which means generating them from an oscillator working at a fixed frequency.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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