impulse

Example Sentences

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“In the near term, there are some inflationary impulses from the rise in oil prices over the last couple of months,” Angelo Kourkafas, senior global investment strategist at Edward Jones, said in an interview Monday.

From MarketWatch

This is the dynamic the economist Albert Hirschman warned about: That loyalty is what turns frustration into voice—the impulse to fix what is broken rather than flee.

From The Wall Street Journal

Those dueling impulses, rage and reason, are the focus of “Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution” by Jonathan Turley, a law professor at George Washington University.

From The Wall Street Journal

According to the NHS, it can happen if the electrical impulses in your heart are blocked or delayed.

From BBC

In fact, he was so grateful that his strongest impulse was to give C.C. a big hug as a way of saying thanks.

From Literature