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impatiently



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The Tesla pushes forward impatiently, while its occupant wonders whether to take control.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 2, 2025

I’d been waiting rather impatiently for the reunion because I still had a lot of lingering questions after the finale.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 30, 2025

That weekend, I noticed myself impatiently tugging at Otto’s leash on his morning walk despite the fact that it was the first nice Saturday we’d had in weeks and we had nowhere else to be.

From Salon Feb. 9, 2025

"We have been waiting for this day impatiently," Mai Khader Abdul Ghani, whose son, Moatasem Billah Rami Nabil Sammour, has a rare autoimmune disease, told BBC Arabic's Gaza Today.

From BBC Feb. 1, 2025

They complained impatiently to each other as they hunted for the right-sized stones or hauled load after load of wood in their arms, dumping it near the big kettle, which was boiling and steaming away.

From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich




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