stimulus
Example Sentences
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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
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
“Adding deficit-financed stimulus to this mix at this moment would increase the burden on monetary policy,” she said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026
What bankers appear to be calling for is not stimulus or austerity but balance.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 8, 2026
Economic stimulus packages could have sailed through Congress to bail out those trapped in jobless ghettos through no fault of their own.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
Vocabulary lists containing stimulus
The Alchemist
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"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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