impetuous
Example Sentences
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"When you come on and your team is losing it gives you that extra impetuous to try and change it."
From BBC • Mar. 11, 2026
He distanced himself from his impetuous comments of recent weeks, when he described his season with Ferrari as "a nightmare" and said he was not looking forward to 2026.
From Barron's • Nov. 27, 2025
“The babies’ breathing,” he writes, “was impetuous, nervous, uneven, but the mothers’ slow worldly sighs, forceful and vaguely wise, got to me, straight to the heart.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 2025
This new Angie is as impetuous, brash, willful and secretive as the original.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 2025
You were always such an impetuous child, and I genuinely hope you aren't letting your temper get the better of you.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
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