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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

In addition to dragging the pieces into place, much of the opening episode seems meant to satisfy an impulse to show off Kansas City — Sudeikis grew up in that area.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026

Suddenly I have an impulse to get up, stand at the edge of the stage and open my mouth to sing.

From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper

He is renowned for his precise and restrained use of language, delivering provocative truths about people’s ugliest impulses and asking the audience to laugh at them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

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

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

It’s no wonder that theater etiquette has declined when so many people are turning to their obsequious chatbots for validation of their worst impulses.

From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2026

In traditional medicine ‘spirits’ did the work in the body that we would attribute to electrical impulses travelling along the nerves; these spirits were, we might say, barely material.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton