impulse

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

Olmo must decide between fulfilling his duty or pursuing his age-appropriate impulse for fun.

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

The same veneer of courtliness masked the same animal impulse to see the world as it is, rather than as it should be.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

A devotion to both impulses has marked America’s democratic experiment from the very beginning.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

It’s meant to represent dueling impulses inside of him, he explains.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 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

“There is relatively little in the way of new impulses for the eurozone this week,” Metzler analysts said in a note.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026

The electrical impulses in modern computers do, however, travel nearly at the speed of light.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan