impulse
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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
What doesn’t change is our impulse to explain complicated social and economic changes by assigning a personality to an entire generation.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 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
Critics say the app’s countdown timers, amped-up chat feeds and other elements encourage impulse overspending.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
On an irresistible impulse I leaned down and gave her a kiss.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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
These include when the electrical impulses that regulate heartbeats don't function properly, or when the walls of the heart become inflamed or damaged.
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026
Warren concluded with a scathing diagnosis of the Adams correspondence with her as a scattered series of verbal impulses and “the most captious, malignant, irrelevant compositions that have ever been seen.”
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
Vocabulary lists containing impulse
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"The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin
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