impress
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Their limited series / TV movie counterparts Claire Danes, Carey Mulligan and Sarah Pidgeon will also dress to impress.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
"In the 1840 narrative, Byfield sought to impress wealthy patrons by presenting himself as a dutiful soldier and deserving veteran," O'Keeffe says.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026
Over drinks, Black tried to impress upon him the magnitude of the potential opportunity that the Athene merger presented—and what it would mean for Harris’s 59 million Apollo shares.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
Training always goes up a level when a new manager arrives, as players look to impress, but the intensity of the German's double sessions are said to have been "off the charts".
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
The Prince of Demons, for all his many faults, loved to impress.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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Not that the easily impressed senators, eager to exculpate a favored man, took note of the irony.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
Allegedly, somewhere out there De Palma’s original three-hour cut exists, one that so impressed Ellroy that he devoted an entire essay to singing its praises called “The Hillikers.”
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026
Cockenoe, the author writes, displayed a “linguistic dexterity” that impressed Eliot, who taught him to read and write English.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
However, the first of the trio of events has less than impressed.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026
Several members from Gran’s church were so impressed that she collected around a hundred dollars.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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As the company achieves notable growth — sales more than doubled in the latest quarter — it’s also impressing Wall Street with its profit performance.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
Midfielder Merlin Rohl, 24, initially struggled for game time before impressing over four starts in May.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
Buddhas float overhead like a divine ideal but also weigh down on their visitors, impressing on us the difficulty of ever reaching enlightenment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
But Rockets' bowlers held their nerve late in the innings as Spirit lost five wickets for 42 balls, with spinner Calvin Harrison impressing again with 2-25.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
During those years when I was memorizing the questions and answers of The Baltimore Catechism, I was also impressing on my memory the spelling of hundreds of words, grammar rules, division and multiplication tables.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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Any one who has seen Irving's masterly representation of the dying Louis cannot but be imprest by the verisimilitude of Northcote's presentation.
From Tieck's Essay on the Boydell Shakspere Gallery by George Henry Danton
No certain form on any was imprest; All were confused, and each disturbed the rest.
From Heathen Mythology by Various
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 Henry Cabot Lodge
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 Martha Foote Crow
This is that Henry IV., whose scene at Canossa with the Pope—Kaiser of the Holy Roman Empire waiting three days in the snow to kiss the foot of excommunicative Gregory—has imprest itself on all memories.
From Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 5 Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Switzerland, Part 1 by Francis W. (Francis Whiting) Halsey
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