- plural of stimulus.
stimuli
Example Sentences
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They employ all manners of external stimuli and self-optimization techniques to approach even a fraction of what your heart is naturally capable of.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
"By analyzing the bees' behavior across unusually stringent control experiments, we could show that they were not simply reacting to visual stimuli or moving the ball randomly," says lead author Bhambore.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 3, 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
Set aside all the academic debates about how many words a young child should hear; parents’ job is to expose their kids to stimuli that expand their thinking.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025
In fact, it had a fairly developed brain, but that brain was tuned primarily to the reception of orders via positronic field, and its reaction to independent stimuli was rather fumbling.
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
