impulse

That White House staffers apparently felt comfortable anonymously attacking Holmes in personal terms suggests that the impulse has trickled down too.

From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026

What doesn’t change is our impulse to explain complicated social and economic changes by assigning a personality to an entire generation.

From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026

The new head coach underscored that it can be easy for impulse and emotion to take over, but uplifting one another and letting mistakes refine you rather than define you is integral to success.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026

It’s an admirable impulse — and one rooted in a genuine sense of civic duty.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026

The same veneer of courtliness masked the same animal impulse to see the world as it is, rather than as it should be.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

But even if the country’s worst impulses still bubbled up, U.S. midfielder Tyler Adams described a sentiment around his team that might as well have summed up the whole tournament.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026

But it’s also a story about, say, how a creature’s loneliness might make him greedy and petulant, and how sometimes the best solution is to feed someone’s heart as opposed to their impulses.

From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026

Eurozone government bond yields edged lower, tracking their Treasury peers, with little in the way of new impulses for the eurozone this week.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026

Nahai says by using mascots, brands tap into people's innate impulses.

From BBC ● May 13, 2026

She was sleepily aware of his presence and in one of her rare impulses of affection, she threw her arm across his chest.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith