impulse

Example Sentences

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Yet the intellectual impulse behind it has not disappeared.

From Slate • Mar. 31, 2026

Caesar, Hegel writes, was driven by “an unconscious impulse that occasioned the accomplishment of that for which the time was ripe.”

From Salon • Mar. 28, 2026

Some of those who took part were also taking another Parkinson's drug, but 14% of patients on a dopamine agonist alone developed an impulse control disorder, the study found.

From BBC • Mar. 28, 2026

Yet in this dense marketplace of ideas, identities and impulse buys, a shared sensibility quickly comes into focus.

From Barron's • Mar. 28, 2026

Prometheus, whose name means forethought, was very wise, wiser even than the gods, but Epimetheus, which means afterthought, was a scatterbrained person who invariably followed his first impulse and then changed his mind.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton