impulses
Example Sentences
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A devotion to both impulses has marked America’s democratic experiment from the very beginning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 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
Ammons reacted uneasily to Bloom’s praise and felt the critic failed to recognize his poetic impulses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
I understood their impulses, the long years’ privation and hurt out of which they had come to Communism.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
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