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stimulus

[stim-yuh-luhs] / ˈstɪm yə ləs /


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During the pandemic, Robinhood and other digital investment tools helped birth a new generation of day traders, drawing from people stuck at home, some flush with cash from government stimulus payments.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

Suzuki exudes the fragility and buoyancy of adolescence, playing Fuki as someone constantly imbibing the world, rarely revealing what she’s doing with that stimulus.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026

Instead of attacking the reflected image, the octopuses needed to figure out where the stimulus was actually located and move toward it.

From Science Daily • Jun. 5, 2026

That would be the fastest rate of growth since the fourth quarter of 2021, when COVID-era stimulus was still coursing through the economy, according to FactSet’s John Butters.

From MarketWatch • May 17, 2026

With all visual stimulus removed, the blackness feels larger than my head, as though my cranial cavity has turned inside out.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen




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