stimulus
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Fueled by government stimulus, the economy was growing by leaps and bounds and businesses were desperate to add more employees.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026
“The removal of monetary stimulus to date has supported forward-looking indicators of medium-term inflation remaining anchored,” the central bank said in a statement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
Because spiders sense their surroundings differently from people, the researchers first had to identify a sound stimulus that would produce a consistent response during their experiments.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026
Head coach John Mitchell said England need a "new stimulus" after losing 31-22 to Canada in the WXV Series in Ottawa to suffer back-to-back defeats for the first time in a decade.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
“I was convinced that the fragrance of frying ham was the greatest stimulus to appetite known to man. It was terribly hard on the women.”
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
Yet Schoenbrun’s observations are presented in the film as though they’re opaque, overloaded with smug surrealism and jam-packed with visual stimuli designed to wink and nudge at the otherwise obvious.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
At the hospital, one of the officers requested that Cervantes submit to a “subjective sobriety test” that included measuring her eye’s response to stimuli, according to the complaint.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2026
But I love the answer that they gave Zosia to give: You can’t possibly take in all of the feelings and the stimuli that the whole world is having right now.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 24, 2025
He adds: "In contrast, cold detection inside the body appears to depend on different sensory circuits and molecular receptors, reflecting its deeper physiological role in internal regulation and responses to environmental stimuli."
From Science Daily ● Dec. 18, 2025
She learned to calculate the parameters necessary to fix the possible variables within the “positronic brain”; to construct “brains” on paper such that the responses to given stimuli could be accurately predicted.
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
Vocabulary lists containing stimulus
The Alchemist
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"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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