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impulse

[im-puhls] / ˈɪm pʌls /




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His descriptions convey with equal force the stillness of the forest, the mute hostility of a marriage, the ardent impulses of youth.

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A growing number of EU leaders are starting to admit that their legitimacy depends on responding effectively to electoral impulses.

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That impulse can be tiresome, and in “Zootopia 2” it is.

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Impulse policies, like impulse buys, can work out well or badly but can never be well rationalized.

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Traders scrambling to explain the wild swings pointed to leverage—and an impulse to take profits before the year-end.

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