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No, "impulse about" is not a grammatically correct phrase.
However, "impulse to" or "impulse for" can be used in written English. Example: I had an impulse to buy that new book. In this example, "impulse to" is used to express a sudden urge or desire to do something, in this case, to buy the book. Example: My friend had an impulse for adventure, so we went skydiving. In this example, "impulse for" is used to indicate a strong desire or inclination towards something, in this case, adventure.
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I had gone from my first impulse about getting into her pants to fearing that she'd try to get into mine.
Some impulse about laying down foundations, perhaps, now that I have a family, or about completing bigger works that could stand beyond my time.
In the end, however, the voters will probably decide which basic impulse about government makes the most sense for a nation that is prosperous and complacent, put forward by two men with backgrounds more similar than not.
Donating his imitations to museums, Landis said, started as an impulse about 30 years ago.
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A characteristically unwise impulse, brought about by a dinner given by settled, well-off contemporaries, takes her for two excruciatingly lonely days to an exquisitely beautiful Paris and leaves her broke.
People who used this strategy for a week reported giving in to insecure impulses only about half as often as they had before.
And society grapples with conflicting impulses about immigrants every day.
"He has idealist impulses that are real, and then impulses about concerns about unintended consequences of idealism.
For Cristi, this is an ironic moral defeat — his best, truest, most generous impulses about justice are crushed by authoritarian habits that, embedded in language, remain as strong in the new Romania as they were in the old.
Amir, 25, an organizer in the Damascus suburb of Douma, expressed conflicting impulses about Islam — "I personally don't pray, but I respect my religion" — and its role in politics.
Reagan had strong gut impulses about major issues, but he never possessed a sophisticated grasp of them, as Richard Nixon did of superpower politics, Al Gore did of the environment and Bill Clinton did of almost everything.
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