stimulus
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“Despite the goal with these incentives being to attract filmmaking and lead to economic stimulus, that’s not materialized in the data,” Button said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
He said that nearly 15 years of powerful stimulus in Japan have created durable, robust underlying economic dynamics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
This referred to the combination of aggressive monetary easing, fiscal stimulus and structural reforms under assassinated former premier Shinzo Abe, a figure greatly admired by Japan's first woman leader Takaichi.
From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 2026
To be sure, Cox said the current drivers of inflation will not trigger another 2022-like price crisis, which was fueled by pandemic-related supply-chain disruptions and massive fiscal stimulus.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026
With all visual stimulus removed, the blackness feels larger than my head, as though my cranial cavity has turned inside out.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
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
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
The ultralow rates, along with other government stimuli and zero-commission trades, kindled a new generation’s interest in the markets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 13, 2026
She had tried traditional therapy, as well as interventions like eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy, where a patient is asked to recall traumatic events while experiencing auditory, visual, or tactile stimuli.
From Slate ● Dec. 18, 2025
He introduced a range of different demands and stimuli, asking lab participants to respond with the left hand, or the right, and to discern among and between colors, words, sounds.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
Vocabulary lists containing stimulus
The Alchemist
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