impress
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But the 6-foot-5, 265-pound Bailey, an undrafted free agent from Louisville, continues to impress.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
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
Replacing doors on the inside can also help impress potential buyers, Perry said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026
I can’t wait to impress everyone with my own house.
From "The House That Lou Built" by Mae Respicio
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"We were certainly watching closely as it interacted with Joe Island and were impressed that it survived the interaction without further fragmentation," Garbo said.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
Those letters are then locked into a frame called a chase, coated with ink and impressed on sheets of paper.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Liverpool are well stocked in that department when you include promising teenage defenders like Mor Talla Ndiaye and Ifeanyi Ndukwe, who impressed in pre-season.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
Zoe Kazan has established herself in the past several years as a versatile artist who impressed critics and audiences with her lead role in “Ruby Sparks” and her Emmy-nominated performance in HBO’s “Olive Kitteridge.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
Jemma’s cipher was so good, even Mr. Pinkerton would be impressed.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
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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
After impressing on loan at Fortuna Dusseldorf, where he scored 24 goals in Germany's second tier, he joined Club Brugge in 2024 and quickly established himself as one of Belgium's most productive attacking players.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
He won the nomination after impressing his CEA colleagues.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
But, after impressing Frank Lampard on the Uefa Pro Licence course, he became first-team coach at Chelsea in the summer of 2020.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
George Orson Welles had been impressing people since he was a toddler.
From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow
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What distils Immediate thence, no end of being knows; Bearing its seal immutably imprest.
From The World's Best Poetry, Volume 4 The Higher Life by Bliss Carman
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
Allowing for the changes produced by time, I think sufficient analogy may be found between the ancient and modern uses of the words "imprest" and "debenture."
From Notes and Queries, Number 37, July 13, 1850 by Various
The evening on which I saw the Rhine for the first time, I was imprest with the same idea.
From Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 5 Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Switzerland, Part 1 by Francis W. (Francis Whiting) Halsey
He whose thoughts are imprest vividly on the surface is always placed at a glaring disadvantage.
From Common Sense, How to Exercise It by Mme. Blanchard Yoritomo-Tashi
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