impulse
Example Sentences
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This impulse has now been honored with a semicongratulatory presidential tweet.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
The impulse to shop your values isn’t naive.
From Salon • May 27, 2026
Nonfood instant-retail orders exceeded 18 million a day, showing the model is moving beyond impulse meals.
From Barron's • May 23, 2026
“Omakase” is in conversation with that same roots-first impulse, but Díaz’s inheritance is messier and more personal.
From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026
My interpretation of the definitions of specific impulse and mass ratio especially seemed to impress him.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
Vocabulary lists containing impulse
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"The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin
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