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Directly employing subcontractors could also impel Amazon to carry more expensive insurance coverage, which would raise delivery costs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

Our brain is ultimately a practical device that can be fooled only for a time, until negative conditions created by lies impel it to "recalibrate" itself.

From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2023

John Bulkeley, the Wager’s gunner, a weapons expert and “instinctive leader” whose Bible-inspired narrative gifts would impel him to write an indelible account of events.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2023

But Tuesday seemed to outdo them all and to impel our still-wintry Washington air into memorably vigorous motion.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 14, 2023

He saw enough in her face to impel him to take her hand and hold it while he said his lingering good night “Will you go to the races again?” he asked.

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin

It impels a creature who feels it to seek out much-needed water much more powerfully than any nonconscious mechanism could.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

Wilzek, the novel’s unlikely hero, does look closely, and what he sees impels him to take a moral stand.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2025

What is it that impels Scarry to go there?

From Washington Post ● Sep. 2, 2022

Instead, she approaches the exercises to test her fitness with a guilelessness that at first confounds him — but that ultimately impels him to confront his own tumultuous existence.

From New York Times ● Aug. 3, 2021

This logical bond, this moral dynamic, this spiritual motive which impels toward altruistic conduct, the Christian finds in Christ.

From The Five Great Philosophies of Life by William De Witt Hyde

A sense of duty, rooted for many in a profound Christian faith, impelled each to take extraordinary risks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 19, 2025

What impelled him, and what does it mean?

From Slate ● Sep. 26, 2025

Harris, a friend and champion of Arbery’s, was behind an online presentation of “Heroes,” and it’s easy to see what impelled him to take a producing interest.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2023

The engineer said he felt impelled to speak out and provide the internal documents because “the safety of the public outweighs the inconvenience to the airlines to make money.”

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 19, 2023

Having reviewed the stages in this transformation from bands to states, we now ask what impelled societies thus to transform themselves.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

One of the pleasures of writing for me is to discover what is it that is impelling me to engage with these characters.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 27, 2022

“Get at Me Dog” is an impelling and incendiary piece of music, like four minutes of a bomb going off.

From Slate ● Apr. 11, 2021

In a flash, rain poured and wind whipped at once, blowing trash onto the field and impelling a rapid response from the grounds crew.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2019

What is impelling the transformation is that the headquarters, constructed under the 1968 building code, do not meet current life-safety and other requirements.

From New York Times ● Dec. 16, 2015

He was excited and something was impelling him to become more excited.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright