impatience
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In his speech at the Fed’s Jackson Hole conference last month, Warsh expressed impatience with inflation, saying he wasn’t impressed by cooler inflation readings in June and July.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026
Louisiana’s move seems to reflect a mixture of impatience and anxiety.
From Slate ● Sep. 16, 2026
That may hold some truth, but it is undercut by Washington’s impatience.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
As their impatience grows, the window for Odysseus to reclaim his kingdom and restore a crumbling world to Zeus’ law — essentially open-hearted hospitality and treating others as you’d be treated — is closing.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026
He had never before felt so self-consciously young, nor experienced such appetite, such impatience for the story to begin.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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