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impress

[im-pres, im-pres] / ɪmˈprɛs, ˈɪm prɛs /




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Replacing doors on the inside can also help impress potential buyers, Perry said.

From MarketWatch Aug. 1, 2026

But they’ve got another bone to pick with Holden Caulfield: He is being used as a prop by performative men to impress those around him.

From Salon Jul. 25, 2026

Alphabet’s financial results this week didn’t impress investors.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

In an era when politics has never been more visual, he'll need to dress to impress, whatever he decides to wear.

From BBC Jul. 19, 2026

It did not occur to me that the music was not for me but to impress the Mehtas’ friends.

From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan

Le Pen continued to advocate for significant state intervention in the economy, according to an attendee who said he wasn’t impressed with her message.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 1, 2026

Not only was Iamaleava impressed with his plans to prepare him for the NFL, but he found himself right away swept up in the coach’s personality.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 30, 2026

And there’s what winning that will mean for the franchise’s stature in L.A., a city that’s impressed by little that’s short of championships.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 30, 2026

Drivers Carlos Sainz and Alex Albon are definitely not impressed - although they continue to say the right things in public.

From BBC Jul. 29, 2026

Ama asks, clearly not impressed with my valiant gesture.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

Fresh from impressing Iraola in New York, Chambers hammered home from inside the box in the seventh minute after Milos Kerkez got a touch on Szoboszlai's corner.

From BBC Aug. 2, 2026

He won the nomination after impressing his CEA colleagues.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

But from the World Cup warm-up matches against New Zealand and Costa Rice, things started to look different - with Bellingham impressing.

From BBC Jul. 11, 2026

I was hellbent on impressing my guests with culinary theatrics and wild flavors, thinking the more labor I poured into my meals, the better the quality of my party.

From Salon Jun. 21, 2026

These are the qualities we admire in things that have style, for style has a way of impressing itself upon us even if we do not know what particular kind of style is involved.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson

Allowing for the changes produced by time, I think sufficient analogy may be found between the ancient and modern uses of the words "imprest" and "debenture."

From Notes and Queries, Number 37, July 13, 1850 by Various

What distils   Immediate thence, no end of being knows;   Bearing its seal immutably imprest.

From The World's Best Poetry, Volume 4 The Higher Life by Carman, Bliss

While pity prompts the rising sigh, With awful power imprest; May this dread truth, "I too must die," Sink deep in every breast.

From Masonic Monitor of the Degrees of Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft and Master Mason together with the Ceremony of Installation, Laying Corner Stones, Dedications, Masonic Burial, Etc. by Thornburgh, George

Remember only, that upon him, whose appearance thou shalt assume, thine shall be imprest, till thou restorest his own.

From Almoran and Hamet by Hawkesworth, John

I welcome thy spray As the prairie-bound hunter The dawning of day; No shackles have bound thee, No tyrant imprest The mark of the Pale face On torrent and crest.

From Indian Legends and Other Poems by Horsford, Mary Gardiner




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