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stimulus

[stim-yuh-luhs] / ˈstɪm jə ləs /


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But the boom ended up smaller than anticipated and was followed by a predictable bust when federal stimulus dried up.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

They also see risks that debt could limit lawmakers’ willingness to fight recessions with fiscal stimulus.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

That’s a hefty amount compared with the $1.8 trillion deficit the U.S. ran last year, which didn’t include any stimulus.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026

This fiscal stimulus, along with healthy demand for exports, were helping to boost economic expectations while the "dampening effects" of the energy shock were weaker than expected, the Ifo institute said.

From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026

He overhauled ethics rules governing White House employees’ interactions with lobbyists and, most important, managed to push a major economic stimulus bill through Congress, even though not a single House Republican voted in its favor.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

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

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

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




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