impulse
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What we have witnessed in the past few days is that impulse made corporeal.
From Slate ● Nov. 5, 2026
Zoe Gauntlett, whose business, Untold Luxury Group, uses trunk shows and personal shoppers to connect luxury brands with customers, said that group shopping can often inspire impulse buying.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
Sometimes that slow-growth impulse took the form of NIMBYism.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
This trick can stop him from making impulse buys and push him to comparison shop for better prices.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026
“It was with difficulty that I restrained the impulse more than once to hurl my manuscript at his head,” Stanton later wrote about the committee chairman.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
We all know what it feels like, even children recognize the feeling of effort, the effort of suppressing impulses.
From Slate ● Oct. 17, 2026
“Wives” shares some of the same impulses of Caryl Churchill’s brilliant, time-hopping feminist comedy “Top Girls,” but the comparison isn’t really a fair one.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
They also reported poorer sleep, a stronger desire for continuous stimulation, and greater difficulty resisting the urge to immediately check their phones or act on impulses.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026
Without inhibition, Ferrier believed that we’d all be slaves to our basest impulses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Fortunately I had no time for more impulses.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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