impulse

Impulse policies, like impulse buys, can work out well or badly but can never be well rationalized.

Traders scrambling to explain the wild swings pointed to leverage—and an impulse to take profits before the year-end.

“We love a rewards card but would just recommend not impulse signing up for one at the checkout,” Blancaflor said.

Before “31 Minutos,” Díaz and Peirano already had experience working in written media and television, so their impulse was to parody the news world they were familiar with.

“I could not sleep,” she explained, “and decided to walk outside on impulse. Even I do not quite know why.”