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A landlocked country still widely associated with a horrific genocide in 1994, Rwanda has used sports to revamp its image, attract tourists and impress investors with its organisational efficiency.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

Trent Alexander-Arnold: Given another opportunity to impress and took it.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

Gemini Spark did impress me with collecting everything I needed for Global Entry applications from my Google services, which a standard Gemini search with Personal Intelligence couldn’t do.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

“It’s super hard because you’re trying to impress, but there are a lot of things you’re trying to balance,” Allen said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026

He didn’t care for this man’s good opinion, and he resented her attempt to impress him.

From "Lupita Mañana" by Patricia Beatty

Now seeing Williams every day, Redick has come away even more impressed by the 25-year-old’s character and leadership qualities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

Georgieva said she was "impressed" by the spirit of cooperation between AI companies, governments and other stakeholders that she witnessed in Bangkok on the issue.

From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026

But Cregger's attempt at Resident Evil, which impressed both critics and fans, seemed to break the curse.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

Getting the film made the way I did impressed him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

If they were impressed by Seven and Thorn, Valley’s skill would truly astound them.

From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega

Indeed, Scott was so impressive that Tuchel said: "Is Declan still for me a fixed point in my team? Yes, but some other players are coming and impressing and it's an ongoing competition."

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

So while federal agents swept Ole Miss’ building, Jones worked the phones, impressing upon deep-pocketed Mississippians the do-or-die nature of the coming weeks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

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

While at City, rapid forward Fletcher, an England Under-17s international, helped the club reach the FA Youth Cup final in 2024 and 2025 before impressing at Ipswich, scoring six times in the Premier League 2.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026

Thus an Italian opera, typically, was a series of well-defined ‘numbers’, a glorified variety show, with something for everyone and plenty of opportunity for lead singers to have their turn at impressing the audience.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

Our young man, however, did not seem to be imprest either with this spectacle of destruction or with the beauty of the sky, tinged with the rosy colors of the dawning day.

From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VIII (of X) - Continental Europe II. by Henry Cabot Lodge

And as two zones the northern heaven restrain, The southern two, and one the hotter midst, With five the Godhead girt th' inclosed earth, And climates five upon its face imprest.

From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by J. J. Howard

So spoke, so wish'd much humbled Eve, but Subscrib'd not; Nature first gave Signs, imprest On Bird, Beast, Air; Air suddenly eclips'd After short blush of Morn.——————

From Letters Concerning Poetical Translations And Virgil's and Milton's Arts of Verse, &c. by William Benson

The storied arras, source of fond delight, With old achievement charms the wilder'd sight; And still, with Heraldry's rich hues imprest, On the dim window glows the pictur'd crest.

From Poems by Samuel Rogers

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