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
In “Kitchen Confidential,” Bourdain describes his decision to head to Provincetown as an impulse motivated less by romantic desire than by general apathy.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026
Critics say the app’s countdown timers, amped-up chat feeds and other elements encourage impulse overspending.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
Doubtless it is all to do with our historic impulse to tame and exploit the wilderness, but America’s attitude to nature is, from all sides, very strange if you ask me.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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
Here, she discusses greedy women, cold mothers and her own tradwife impulses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026
He worked inhumanly, only to lose in effort his crushing impulses.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
Vocabulary lists containing impulse
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"The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin
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