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"to impress" is a perfectly correct and usable phrase in written English
It is used to mean to affect someone with admiration, wonder, or respect. For example, "She designed a beautiful website to impress her new boss."
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To impress
verb
To affect (someone) strongly and often favourably.
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To impress them?
People want to impress him.
Eddie is dressed to impress.
Clearly it continues to impress.
"Dress to impress," he said.
Or hoping to impress somebody.
"We're always having to impress".
He has to impress us".
You want to impress.
"I dress to impress.
This is unlikely to impress Goldstein.
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