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the child's impatience for Christmas morning is engaging
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Darnold said the only way to conquer the impatience of outside perception is to grind through it.
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Jerry McDonald, Mercury News, 5 Feb. 2026
Midmonth, your dreams will demand discipline, but by late February, impatience will spark impulsive moves that could ripple through your finances and alliances.
—Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 3 Feb. 2026
The air carries the weight of centuries, and the land moves at its own pace, unbothered by our impatience, unmoved by our noise.
—John Noakes, Hartford Courant, 31 Jan. 2026
Their impatience for Wikipedia’s impenetrable walls of text, as any parent of kids of this age knows, arguably threatens the future of the internet’s collaborative knowledge clearinghouse.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 Jan. 2026
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Jerry McDonald, Mercury News, 5 Feb. 2026
Midmonth, your dreams will demand discipline, but by late February, impatience will spark impulsive moves that could ripple through your finances and alliances.
—Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 3 Feb. 2026
The air carries the weight of centuries, and the land moves at its own pace, unbothered by our impatience, unmoved by our noise.
—John Noakes, Hartford Courant, 31 Jan. 2026
Their impatience for Wikipedia’s impenetrable walls of text, as any parent of kids of this age knows, arguably threatens the future of the internet’s collaborative knowledge clearinghouse.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 Jan. 2026
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“Impatience.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/impatience. Accessed 13 Feb. 2026.
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impatience
noun
im·pa·tience
(ˈ)im-ˈpā-shən(t)s 
1
: lack of patience
2
: restless or eager desire
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