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impulse

[im-puhls] / ˈɪm pʌls /




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These developments don’t threaten dollar dominance today or tomorrow, but they reflect a genuine, if gradual, de-risking impulse among sovereigns who have concluded that some diversification away from dollar concentration is prudent.

From Barron's • May 27, 2026

The impulse to shop your values isn’t naive.

From Salon • May 27, 2026

“Therefore, a drop in U.S. equity prices is needed to unleash disinflationary forces in the broader economy and counteract the inflationary impulse from higher oil and food prices,” Budaghyan said.

From MarketWatch • May 21, 2026

We regret having to relate such details, but it is crucial to remember when the understandable human impulse is to forget such horrors.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026

But as Galton’s hypothesis about “ancestral inheritance” had been dismantled, piece by piece, by Bateson and de Vries, Galton had taken a sharp turn from a descriptive impulse to a prescriptive one.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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