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Voda also offers one of the banya’s most distinctive traditional treatments: venik, in which bundles of leafy branches gently stimulate the body in the sauna.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

At present, the key rate is judged to neither restrain nor stimulate activity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

I speculate that if he were alive today, he might see it as another regrettable proposal that is also likely to stimulate government growth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Fertility drugs that are used to stimulate egg production for retrieval and freezing are banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

That’s the principle of vaccination: to stimulate our antibody production without our having to go through the actual experience of the disease, by inoculating us with a dead or weakened strain of microbe.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Hydroxyurea, a drug that stimulates production of fetal hemoglobin, has been shown to reduce pain crises and other complications—but it isn’t a cure.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

Sculptra is particularly interesting for this theme because it stimulates collagen production, rather than simply filling wrinkles.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 5, 2026

Most forests remain nitrogen limited enough that additional nitrogen still stimulates biological activity.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 2, 2026

It is used to end pregnancies through 10 weeks gestation in combination with the drug misoprostol, which stimulates contractions and softens the cervix, allowing tissue to expel.

From Barron's ● May 10, 2026

This substance evidently stimulates the normal wording behavior in the hive.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd

That willingness resulted in excess demand that ultimately stimulated acute demand-pull inflation—that is, price increases caused by demand outpacing available goods and services.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

“That’s really what stimulated the conversation of the possibility.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026

When the team electrically stimulated a single bipolar cell, the response spread well beyond that one pathway.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026

The researchers gently stimulated the animals' vellus-like hairs using a small loop of thread to produce mechanical itch.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026

“Netscape going public stimulated a lot of things,” said Barksdale.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman

Galderma owns popular aesthetic products including Sculptra, an injectable aimed at stimulating collagen production, and Restylane, which is an injectable dermal filler.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

The findings highlight an important distinction between simply stimulating muscle growth and maintaining the cellular systems that keep muscles healthy.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

The researchers found that stimulating the receptor with AP503 increased bone strength not only in healthy mice, but also in mice with osteoporosis-like bone loss.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 2026

“I hope Thai people see them as tourists stimulating our economy rather than just focusing on nightlife.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

In Chapter 12 we saw that cultural diffusion can involve either detailed “blueprints” or just vague ideas stimulating a reinvention of details.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond