impress
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Like Viktor Orbán last spring, Mr. Vucic, who conceded Sunday, learned that warm relations with Mr. Trump’s White House don’t always impress the voters at home.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
A landlocked country still widely associated with a horrific genocide in 1994, Rwanda has used sports to revamp its image, attract tourists and impress investors with its organisational efficiency.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
The only thing missing from Kane's career CV was trophies - and in 2023 he joined German side Bayern Munich, where he has continued to impress.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
The point of the date is to get to know the person better, not to attempt to impress them with how much you can afford to spend.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
I would impress everyone, or they'd just feel sorry for me.
From "It All Comes Down to This" by Karen English
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The only child of Anthony, a chiropractor, and Lorraine, who works in the tech industry, Ippolito was encouraged to audition for commercials after his baseball skills impressed a friend of his parents.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026
Abrams didn’t support Conley in the primary, but she’s been impressed with her on the campaign trail.
From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2026
Microsoft delivered a combination of growth and profitability that impressed Wall Street on Wednesday — especially against the backdrop of greater scrutiny over artificial-intelligence investments.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026
Matt Renshaw will be pushed back up to open, having impressed in the first Test at number five, and Labuschagne given another, possibly final, chance.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026
Jemma’s cipher was so good, even Mr. Pinkerton would be impressed.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
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But despite impressing the likes of Stallone himself, for Ippolito -- who played a young Al Pacino in "The Offer," a mini-series chronicling the making of "The Godfather" -- the pressure was on.
From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2026
While England's endurance and depth told, with Hannah Botterman impressing off the bench, Ellie Kildunne weaving up from backfield on her introduction and four tries scored in the final quarter, the hosts' energy was impressive.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
SoFi’s early 2027 forecast is impressing Wall Street.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
He has been in and out since then, impressing in flashes and even going on to make his England debut earlier this season.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
The culture of ascent was characterized by intense competition and undiluted machismo, but for the most part, its constituents were concerned with impressing only one another.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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A heart where dread was never so imprest To hide the thought that might the truth advance; In neither fortune lost, nor yet represt, To swell in wealth, or yield unto mischance.
From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by James Baldwin
Our young man, however, did not seem to be imprest either with this spectacle of destruction or with the beauty of the sky, tinged with the rosy colors of the dawning day.
From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VIII (of X) - Continental Europe II. by Henry Cabot Lodge
The evening on which I saw the Rhine for the first time, I was imprest with the same idea.
From Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 5 Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Switzerland, Part 1 by Francis W. (Francis Whiting) Halsey
The chosen angels, and the spirits blest, Celestial tenants, on that glorious day My Lady join'd them, throng'd in bright array Around her, with amaze and awe imprest.
From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Thomas Campbell
And e’en when this beauty your bosom has blest, The brightest o’ beauty may cloy when possest; But the sweet yellow darlings wi’ Geordie imprest, The langer ye hae them—the mair they’re carest.
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns
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