stimulus
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This idea of hedonic adaptation — how humans so quickly adapt to this new comfort, this new stimulus — it felt like an interesting thing.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026
This substantial amount of fiscal stimulus has the potential to positively impact the broader European economy.
From Barron's • Apr. 16, 2026
With global yields rising, making debt costlier, Georgieva said adding deficit-financed stimulus would increase the burden on central bankers and potentially amplify the problem.
From Barron's • Apr. 9, 2026
What bankers appear to be calling for is not stimulus or austerity but balance.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 8, 2026
And then the stimulus reached my legs and we slid, fell, and pitched ourselves down from the rocks and ran like hell.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
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Vocabulary lists containing stimulus
The Alchemist
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