impulse
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Olsen: I like that you had the impulse.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
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
It’s an admirable impulse — and one rooted in a genuine sense of civic duty.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026
But it’s the actors who execute their vision by playing off of each other and leaning into creative impulse when the scripted scene or real-time audience reaction calls for it.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026
There the electrical impulse is converted into a chemical neurotransmitter to float across the synapse to the next neuron.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
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Examples can include speaking too loudly in a library or struggling to control impulses, difficulties that can occur with ADHD.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
It’s meant to represent dueling impulses inside of him, he explains.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 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
Her mind is an unquiet one, words and thoughts and impulses constantly crashing into each other.
From "Every Day" by David Levithan
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