stimulus
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Fueled by government stimulus, the economy was growing by leaps and bounds and businesses were desperate to add more employees.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026
Head coach John Mitchell said England need a "new stimulus" after losing 31-22 to Canada in the WXV Series in Ottawa to suffer back-to-back defeats for the first time in a decade.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
"Swimming bursts are high-energy attack behaviors that represent an escalation of aggression towards the stimulus fish without making physical contact," explained Currie.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026
Wednesday’s data follows Beijing’s recent rollout of incremental stimulus measures, including mortgage subsidies, bank capital injections and new infrastructure spending.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
But I did hear the lispings, the whispers, the mutters which some day, under one stimulus or another, will surely grow into open revolt unless the conditions which produce Bigger Thomases are changed.
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
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Using sound stimuli, the researchers measured how quickly the spiders responded to disturbances.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026
Not to mention that there is constant information about new stimuli that bring increased health risks, whether it be food recalls or the many warnings about being on that damn phone.
From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026
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
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 stimuli that set them off at the outset, building collectively instead of shifting things about, may be pheromones released when they reach committee size.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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