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stimulate

[stim-yuh-leyt] / ˈstɪm jəˌleɪt /


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They typically interact with brain tissue only at the end of the fiber, meaning researchers can stimulate or monitor just one location at a time.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026

August home-price and property-investment figures are also due, following recent government efforts to stimulate housing demand.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

Mandates can encourage deployment, but they can also inflate electricity prices, due to supply-and-demand imbalance, and stimulate imports.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026

There are other ways to provide enrichment, like rotating toys every day to stimulate exploration, using puzzle feeder dishes to satisfy hunting behaviors and playing videos for your cat showing birds or fish.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

When he asks them to stimulate the blood flow by manipulating Lincoln’s arms in an up-and-down, back-and-forth manner, each instantly kneels and takes an arm.

From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly

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

Reynoso said the betting "stimulates many senses" for the animals on top of providing entertainment for an audience giddy with excitement ahead of the world's biggest football bonanza.

From Barron's ● Jun. 6, 2026

"When you stimulate these serotonergic neurons, we can see that it stimulates activity in the auditory region in the brain," Trussell said.

From Science Daily ● May 15, 2026

They seemed to forget that the increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.'

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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

Five years ago, Rhi had a procedure to put a sacral nerve stimulation system in place - where the nerves controlling the bowel can be stimulated with a device implanted under the skin.

From BBC ● May 13, 2026

This “Animal Farm” is ignorant of the fact that kids need to be stimulated by more than scatalogical humor to actually influence their perspectives, rather than cater to their existing tastes and knowledge.

From Salon ● May 3, 2026

For pop, broadcast technology stimulated a thirst for new sounds and new voices that proliferated vigorously across the world.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

"However, the effect occurs later, and the stimulating effect is often absent," the institute advised.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

Travel, she says, “was exciting, exhausting, anxiety-producing, disorienting, stimulating, joyful and difficult to explain to others.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

Egg freezing involves stimulating the ovaries with hormone injections before mature eggs are surgically retrieved and preserved for possible future use through in vitro fertilization.

From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026

They used advanced imaging to monitor how bipolar cells released and responded to neurotransmitters, while also stimulating individual cells and recording the responses of neighboring cells.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026

Mr. Nielsen is a member of the chamber of commerce, and conversations often include discussion of initiatives and plans for stimulating business in this “unruly” economy, as he calls it.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline




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