stimulus
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The Los Angeles-based trader got his start in 2017, purchasing litecoin, a once-popular cryptocurrency, on a credit card, before scaling up his bets using stimulus checks during the pandemic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
“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
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
The stimulus would lead inevitably to inflation, he thought, but also to a boom in stock prices.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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
By encoding these digital patterns within the hydrogel, the researchers can program how the smart skin reacts to different stimuli.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 6, 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
What interruptions and stimuli rise to the surface even when were intent on focusing on something else?
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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"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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