verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Instead, another regrettable aspect of her personality impelled her to smile specially at this man.
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She had been impelled to go and find him because of the sudden silence from his burrow under the eaves.
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The data showed that information specialists' actions were often impelled not simply by material rewards or to avoid punishment.
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The more one partner backs off, the more the other may be impelled to pursue.
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The Soviet situation was seen as a major factor in impelling the two countries to seek their current reconciliation.
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The swinging mannered flights of the great stairway impelled an obedience to propriety.
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What drives me, what impels me to be so disagreeable, my father has often asked me.