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Finland’s headline EV numbers still impress: 47.8% of new cars sold in the first half of 2026 were fully electric.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

As much as the series is Mary’s bluestocking origin story, it also spells her freedom, which comes from no longer trying to impress or contort herself to fit the expectations of others.

From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2026

Senior figures hope to retain big jobs in government and there is a new man to impress.

From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026

In a crowded year for chilling debuts, director Adrian Chiarella and actors Joe Bird and Stacy Clausen impress with a fear that hits close to home.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026

How it hadn’t been an accident at all, but something she’d done on purpose just to impress people who probably weren’t worth impressing anyway, but she couldn’t.

From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi

He was named player of the match in Ivory Coast's opening win over Ecuador, and further impressed against Germany despite their defeat.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

Susanne Bieller, general secretary of the International Federation of Robotics, said humanoids with flashy skills that have impressed the public are often prototypes trained for a highly tailored demo.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

"What I've been so impressed with is Fery's belief," added former British number one Tim Henman.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

Ukraine’s boldness has impressed the Trump administration, Alexander Stubb, the president of Finland, told the Financial Times this week.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026

Initially the outside world was impressed with Hitler and the Hitler Youth.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Messi had earned his senior call-up in August 2005 after impressing in Argentina's triumph at the World Youth Championship earlier that year.

From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026

I was hellbent on impressing my guests with culinary theatrics and wild flavors, thinking the more labor I poured into my meals, the better the quality of my party.

From Salon ● Jun. 21, 2026

Uncapped defenders Eric Garcia and Marc Pubill have been called up after impressing for Barcelona and Atletico Madrid respectively.

From BBC ● May 25, 2026

She was drawn to theater and music, impressing music teacher and classical pianist Lars Clutterham, who saw she had talent.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2026

“You told me once to start by impressing you, General. I hope I have.”

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

Since sonnets thus in bundles are imprest, And every drudge doth dull our satiate ear, Think'st thou my love shall in those rags be drest That every dowdy, every trull doth wear?

From Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles: Idea, Fidesa and Chloris by Crow, Martha Foote

While mony a kiss the seal imprest, The sacred vow,—we ne’er should sever.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert

He whose thoughts are imprest vividly on the surface is always placed at a glaring disadvantage.

From Common Sense, How to Exercise It by Yoritomo-Tashi, Mme. Blanchard

The chosen angels, and the spirits blest, Celestial tenants, on that glorious day My Lady join'd them, throng'd in bright array Around her, with amaze and awe imprest.

From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Campbell, Thomas

If I had been going into a real engagement I could not have been more deeply imprest by the importance of the occasion.

From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. X (of X) - America - II, Index by Lodge, Henry Cabot