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Recent Examples of impatient Indeed, as impatient businesses and consumers await governments and private businesses to construct a national EV charging network, the need for quicker solutions is being met by several enterprising companies. Ed Garsten, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025 Another season without a postseason would likely tick off an impatient fan base that grew used to watching the Cubs contend in the Joe Maddon era and could spell the end to Hoyer’s long run on the North Side. Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 19 Jan. 2025 MacLachlan’s work as Dougie is an astonishingly precise, funny comedic performance, but many viewers grew impatient waiting for the real Cooper to appear — which The Return withheld until the last two episodes of an 18-episode season. Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 16 Jan. 2025 The New York sports market is impatient and initiating a rebuild the way it's supposed to be executed takes years. Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for impatient 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for impatient
Adjective
  • And although a move wasn’t made Thursday, Weltman is excited about the next stage of roster construction.
    Jason Beede, Orlando Sentinel, 7 Feb. 2025
  • However, fishermen need not get excited, for these lakes contain very little fish life except carp.
    Kay Johnson, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Many times, Eng’s patients were extremely healthy: vegetarians, marathon runners, avid swimmers.
    Jamie Ducharme, TIME, 13 Feb. 2025
  • Scheffler took the next three months off and, as an avid Dallas Cowboys fan, suffered through the NFL season.
    Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 13 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • The paradox of intolerance says the one thing to be intolerant of is intolerance itself.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Inspector Generals' offices must be staffed by people who are constitutionally intolerant of injustice.
    Lucy Lang, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Advertisers seemed eager to evoke a smile or recognition, and then get off the stage.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 10 Feb. 2025
  • The Chiefs are trying to become the first NFL team ever to win three Super Bowls in a row, and the Eagles are eager to stop them and avenge their 2023 loss.
    NPR Staff, NPR, 9 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • His message was met with enthusiastic cheers from the crowd that followed him.
    Jennah Pendleton, Sacramento Bee, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Some of the comedian's followers were enthusiastic about his video.
    Kristan Hawkins, Newsweek, 6 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Related article More kids are anxious but fewer are getting the right help, study shows New fears and anxieties tend to develop and vary as children and adolescents grow and adapt to new environments, Silverman said.
    Julianna Bragg, CNN, 5 Feb. 2025
  • The person in question has legal status and was feeling anxious about the Trump administration's hardline immigration agenda.
    Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Newsweek, 4 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • The best and hungriest sides find a way of treating every match and every opponent the same, with no slipping of standards.
    George Caulkin, The Athletic, 5 Feb. 2025
  • Afterward, the female looked bored, and then, perking up at the grunts of nearby warthogs, hungry.
    Marcia DeSanctis, airmail.news, 1 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • In their posh Palm Springs home, Polly and Lyman Wyeth (at Cygnet, played by Rosina Reynolds and Alan Rust) are ardent Republicans.
    David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Feb. 2025
  • Friends and family remember Stephanie and Roger as extremely devoted parents and ardent supporters of Cory’s budding skating career.
    Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 31 Jan. 2025

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“Impatient.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impatient. Accessed 19 Feb. 2025.

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