stimulate
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Burnham has pledged to cut business rates in key hospitality sectors to ease pressure on firms and stimulate job creation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
These new drugs – including Ozempic and Wegovy – mimic the GLP-1 hormone to stimulate insulin release, slow digestion, and increase feelings of fullness.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026
And that could stimulate more activity for companies involved in building and financing these projects, which will eventually trickle down to the broader economy, the Wells Fargo team said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
Yet Beijing has signaled little appetite for steps sought by some economists to stimulate growth, such as significantly expanding social-welfare spending and stepping up support for the beleaguered real-estate industry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
He used an electric current to stimulate an amphibian’s calf, then employed the galvanometer to measure how long it took the electrical current to run along the sciatic nerve.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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Take Lough Neagh – by scientists' estimation, approximately four decades' worth of phosphorus, the nutrient that stimulates growth, are stored in its sediment.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
As growth hormone gradually builds up during sleep, it stimulates the locus coeruleus and encourages wakefulness.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026
Fed governor Michael Barr has said that stronger productivity growth could push the neutral rate of interest—the theoretical rate that neither stimulates nor restricts growth—higher, not lower.
From Barron's ● Apr. 24, 2026
This ultimately stimulates the release of more glutamate, which helps send excitatory signals between brain cells.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 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
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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
Using electrodes, they stimulated specific bipolar cell types while simultaneously recording how neighboring cells responded.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 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
It is conceivable that new clones of cells with a particular receptor are stimulated to emerge in the process of training.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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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
Unfortunately, much of the rest of the work here is less stimulating.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
On the other hand, variety can be stimulating.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
IVF involves stimulating the ovaries to produce eggs, retrieving them, fertilising them in a laboratory and then implanting the resulting embryo back into the womb.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 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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