impulse
Example Sentences
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Medical imaging of adolescent brains shows structural changes in areas involved in impulse control and decision-making.
As competitive as he is, as intense as he can be, he knows how to keep his impulses from compromising his team’s long-term objectives.
From Los Angeles Times
While our impulse buys might juice the bottom line in the short run, all the resulting returns, complaints and overall customer dissatisfaction can hurt a business by eroding our trust in it.
What do you make of that impulse to dump everything out into the world?
From Los Angeles Times
Across the West, similar cases appear frequently enough to challenge the belief that these impulses remain geographically contained.
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