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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

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

Why is such a declaration, about such an enormous crisis, not enough to impel more people to act?

From Washington Post ● Sep. 14, 2022

"Providing Ukraine even more arms may well produce the results its proponents anticipate. It could, on the other hand, impel Russian commanders to subject Ukrainians to even greater pain," Menon cautioned.

From Salon ● Apr. 8, 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

It impels a creature who feels it to seek out much-needed water much more powerfully than any nonconscious mechanism could.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

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

Instead, she approaches the exercises to test her fitness with a guilelessness that at first confounds him — but that ultimately impels him to confront his own tumultuous existence.

From New York Times ● Aug. 3, 2021

Such a conclusion, however, could be formed only when the original leader is a whist-player, and is not one of those persons who lead at random, according as their fancy at the time impels them.

From Hoyle's Games Modernized by Louis Hoffmann

Reductions in federal subsidies have impelled universities to cut Ph.D. admissions in programs that enroll few undergraduates, meaning there’s less demand for graduate student labor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

What impelled him, and what does it mean?

From Slate ● Sep. 26, 2025

“It was the experience in that space and the vastness of it and the way his art lived in space,” said Wenders, addressing what impelled him to jump-start the film after a 2019 visit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 29, 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

Its drama lay in its lack of drama, in its quietness, in the courtesies we felt impelled to extend to one another.

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin

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