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Directly employing subcontractors could also impel Amazon to carry more expensive insurance coverage, which would raise delivery costs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

Our brain is ultimately a practical device that can be fooled only for a time, until negative conditions created by lies impel it to "recalibrate" itself.

From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2023

John Bulkeley, the Wager’s gunner, a weapons expert and “instinctive leader” whose Bible-inspired narrative gifts would impel him to write an indelible account of events.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2023

Where Mehretu saturates space, Sorey vacates it, yet both painter and composer offer vital examples of how to create at full scale when the times impel others to reduce their ambition.

From New York Times ● Sep. 28, 2022

He saw enough in her face to impel him to take her hand and hold it while he said his lingering good night “Will you go to the races again?” he asked.

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin

It impels a creature who feels it to seek out much-needed water much more powerfully than any nonconscious mechanism could.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

Wilzek, the novel’s unlikely hero, does look closely, and what he sees impels him to take a moral stand.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2025

First, beauty impels us to pay a certain kind of attention.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 6, 2023

What is it that impels Scarry to go there?

From Washington Post ● Sep. 2, 2022

The water which has been conducted round the side of the hills, in its course impels the machinery of several stamping-mills, which have been erected on different levels.

From Curiosities of Great Britain: England and Wales Delineated Vol.1-11 Historical, Entertaining & Commercial; Alphabetically Arranged. 11 Volume set. by Thomas Cantrell Dugdale

A sense of duty, rooted for many in a profound Christian faith, impelled each to take extraordinary risks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 19, 2025

What impelled him, and what does it mean?

From Slate ● Sep. 26, 2025

“It was the experience in that space and the vastness of it and the way his art lived in space,” said Wenders, addressing what impelled him to jump-start the film after a 2019 visit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 29, 2023

His frustration and anger at the press, however, impelled him to buck convention by suing newspaper owners — allegedly against the wishes of his father, now King Charles III.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 4, 2023

“I don’t know what it was. Why I...felt so impelled to do that, but I did.”

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

One of the pleasures of writing for me is to discover what is it that is impelling me to engage with these characters.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 27, 2022

“Get at Me Dog” is an impelling and incendiary piece of music, like four minutes of a bomb going off.

From Slate ● Apr. 11, 2021

In a flash, rain poured and wind whipped at once, blowing trash onto the field and impelling a rapid response from the grounds crew.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2019

Many observers believe that it would be unable to withstand that financial blow, impelling the collapse of its fledgling cross-sectarian government.

From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2014

He was excited and something was impelling him to become more excited.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright