impetuosity

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Recent Examples of impetuosity What few at the time foresaw was that the region could be delivered to China through Trump’s sheer impetuosity, or his inability to think before posting. Quico Toro, The Atlantic, 27 Jan. 2025 Two centuries later, the Greek historian Polybius contrasted Roman discipline, order, and rationality with Celtic impetuosity, chaos, and passion on the battlefield. Michele Gelfand, Foreign Affairs, 22 June 2021 Meeting his current expedition partner, Børge Ousland, required another stroke of youthful impetuosity. Kelly Bastone, Outside Online, 8 Nov. 2017 His sacred vows didn’t stop Kelly from displaying the impetuosity that brands this city’s fans. Frank Fitzpatrick, Philly.com, 14 Apr. 2018 Regardless of whether fate led these men to board the train, Eastwood suggests that what drove them to act when faced with a crisis was their youthful impetuosity. Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, 9 Feb. 2018 Not to give too much away, but Alice’s romantic impetuosity in her youth has fateful consequences that only a show as sentimentally over the top as this could happily resolve. Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 23 Oct. 2017 This president combines qualities of Shakespeare’s worst kings: the vanity of Lear, the impetuosity of Richard II, the maliciousness of Richard III. Paula Marantz Cohen, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2017 But, then again, that’s the sort of recipe favored by Donald Trump, a president who acts with impetuosity and has little time for strategy. Matt Giles, Longreads, 31 July 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for impetuosity
Noun
  • The caprice of the wind was the only reason there was evidence to recover in the first place.
    Henry Leutwyler Robert Petkoff Emma Kehlbeck Quinton Kamara, New York Times, 20 May 2025
  • Trump ran as a populist, but his actions in office have built a new élite shaped by his personal preference and caprice.
    Nathan Heller, New Yorker, 9 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Essentially, stablecoins integrate the U.S. dollar within the blockchain — merging the reliability and stability of fiat with the rapidity, transparency, and programmability associated with crypto.
    Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
  • Trump has hit multiple records for his first 100 days in office, but the rapidity of his actions also highlights the fragility of relying on presidential action to cement core policies.
    Rachel Treisman, NPR, 29 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • For the Beach Bride For the summer bride hosting a seaside soirée, Loewe’s silk fishnet dress—framed with frothy ruffles—is the perfect blend of whimsy and modernity.
    Sarah Zendejas, Vogue, 23 June 2025
  • This is a standard approach to the glassware, with a touch of whimsy thanks to the ochre (or green or pink) marble at the midpoint of the stem.
    Blake Bakkila, Architectural Digest, 17 June 2025
Noun
  • Vape shops have spread across the American retail landscape with a bizarre swiftness, seemingly unbeholden to the same vagaries of inflation, customer demand, and local real estate that bind every other kind of storefront small business in the country.
    Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 22 June 2023
  • Third, repeaters should prove capable of swapping this data between nodes in a network in a predictable way and not one too subject to the vagaries of chance.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 13 June 2023
Noun
  • Analysts who follow Walgreens see the move to private ownership as another plus because the company and a stock price attached to public ownership will no longer be subject to the whims of Wall Street.
    Bruce Japsen, Forbes.com, 26 June 2025
  • Stay true to your ideas, whims, and more once Leo season begins on July 22.
    Liz Simmons, StyleCaster, 24 June 2025
Noun
  • They were arrested on marijuana and lewd vagrancy charges.
    Victoria Edel, People.com, 18 May 2025
  • Roughly 12% were of African descent — newly unshackled, technically free and already being legally recaptured under other names: peonage, vagrancy laws, convict leasing.
    Jack Hill, Baltimore Sun, 17 May 2025
Noun
  • The Old Guard 2 — a sequel to the Charlize Theron fantasy superhero hit from 2020 — arrives on Netflix this week.
    Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 29 June 2025
  • Set in a fantasy version of early 1900s Japan, the series focuses on the adventures Tanjiro Kamado, an ordinary boy whose peaceful life in the mountains is disrupted when demons murder his family.
    Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 28 June 2025

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“Impetuosity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impetuosity. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.

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