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Directly employing subcontractors could also impel Amazon to carry more expensive insurance coverage, which would raise delivery costs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

The rules of Washington would normally impel a person at Esper’s level to seek cover for his actions.

From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2024

John Bulkeley, the Wager’s gunner, a weapons expert and “instinctive leader” whose Bible-inspired narrative gifts would impel him to write an indelible account of events.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2023

Where Mehretu saturates space, Sorey vacates it, yet both painter and composer offer vital examples of how to create at full scale when the times impel others to reduce their ambition.

From New York Times ● Sep. 28, 2022

He saw enough in her face to impel him to take her hand and hold it while he said his lingering good night “Will you go to the races again?” he asked.

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin

Wilzek, the novel’s unlikely hero, does look closely, and what he sees impels him to take a moral stand.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2025

What is it that impels Scarry to go there?

From Washington Post ● Sep. 2, 2022

The inspiration gained from that view might carry us well beyond the statistical forecast that impels the fatalistic alternative.

From Scientific American ● May 12, 2021

Not just because it inspires, but also because it impels.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 4, 2018

God preserve you from the impassion’d longing That impels me now to seek my brother O’er the weary world, a tired one, wandering.”

From Servian Popular Poetry by John Bowring

A sense of duty, rooted for many in a profound Christian faith, impelled each to take extraordinary risks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 19, 2025

What impelled him, and what does it mean?

From Slate ● Sep. 26, 2025

Harris, a friend and champion of Arbery’s, was behind an online presentation of “Heroes,” and it’s easy to see what impelled him to take a producing interest.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2023

The engineer said he felt impelled to speak out and provide the internal documents because “the safety of the public outweighs the inconvenience to the airlines to make money.”

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 19, 2023

Racing through the ocher light, Bigwig was impelled by a frenzy of tension and energy.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

For Emerson, Thoreau and James, Richardson tells us, it was as if their losses had marked their souls, altering their mind-sets and impelling them forward with different perspectives, and sometimes different directions, than before.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 26, 2023

One of the pleasures of writing for me is to discover what is it that is impelling me to engage with these characters.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 27, 2022

“Get at Me Dog” is an impelling and incendiary piece of music, like four minutes of a bomb going off.

From Slate ● Apr. 11, 2021

In a flash, rain poured and wind whipped at once, blowing trash onto the field and impelling a rapid response from the grounds crew.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2019

He was excited and something was impelling him to become more excited.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright