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impress upon



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“This is solvable. If you impress upon employees and make it easy for them, then that problem is addressable,” Stinnett said.

From MarketWatch Jun. 16, 2026

Williams wants to impress upon folks that he is an iconoclast, and it comes off as smarmy.

From Salon Jan. 10, 2025

We didn’t impress upon him that he needed to make the decision there and then.

From BBC May 13, 2024

“It’s difficult to impress upon anyone how important the idea of cowboys was to my father’s generation,” says McCormack.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 2, 2024

There had been public meetings in England, protests, petitions, letters—the whole machinery of democratic expression had been set in motion to impress upon the British Government the need for action—and not a thing was done.

From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok




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