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Shares of Applied Materials fell 5% after the semiconductor-equipment maker reported higher third-quarter net income and increased revenue, but failed to impress investors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

But it’s still possible to impress skeptical investors and flip a negative narrative.

From Barron's ● Aug. 8, 2026

Tech stocks are set for a wobble on Thursday, as shares of memory makers Sandisk and Western Digital tumble following earnings that failed to impress investors.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026

When confronted by Helen, after she became suspicious, he admitted he was not a pilot, but said he had wanted to impress her.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026

But Chix Verbil’s ill-fated quest to impress the dames is, once again, another story.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer

In 2023, he spoke with Tang, who later told his staff he was impressed by Liang’s “different ways of thinking.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

“I’ve been very impressed with his mindset since he arrived,” said Galaxy coach Greg Vanney.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

Lee noted that cybersecurity is emerging as a bigger part of the story for the company, and he has been impressed with the work and vision of Yevgeny Dibrov, who now leads ServiceNow’s cybersecurity efforts.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026

With Odegaard, Guimaraes - who impressed in his 45 minutes on the pitch - Myles Lewis-Skelly, Martin Zubimendi, Declan Rice, Eberechi Eze and Merino, it is hard to disagree.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

“I’m impressed by your initiative,” Mom said, “but that’s not going to get you out of the punishment your father and I have been talking about.”

From "Liar, Liar" by Gary Paulsen

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

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

He won the nomination after impressing his CEA colleagues.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

Bouaddi controls matches in a manner which defies his tender age, impressing in Morocco's opening draw with Brazil where he outshone Casemiro and Bruno Guimaraes.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

I just love impressing the most popular boy in our class!

From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez

And e’en when this beauty your bosom has blest, The brightest o’ beauty may cloy when possest; But the sweet yellow darlings wi’ Geordie imprest, The langer ye hae them—the mair they’re carest.

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 Robert Burns

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

Nicholas.—We have disposed of our brother, his Prussian Majesty, who appeared to be imprest by the apprehension that a portion of his dominions was in jeopardy.

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 by Various

Readers are imprest by the perfect ease and mastery with which a great variety of subjects are dealt with, his story "advancing with epic grandeur to its close."

From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume I (of X) - Greece by Francis W. (Francis Whiting) Halsey

Preeminent above all other suggestions, I am imprest with his vivid sense of the reality of the redemptive work of Christ.

From The World's Great Sermons, Volume 10 Drummond to Jowett, and General Index by Grenville Kleiser