stimulus
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Companies also felt more of the effect of fiscal stimulus from the German government on defense and infrastructure investments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
Domestic demand climbed in July, a factor that is set to continue as hundreds of billions of euros in fiscal stimulus continue to flow to defense and infrastructure projects.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 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
The decline continued into the early 2020s because the stimulus checks and more generous unemployment insurance payments the government provided at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic helped keep millions of U.S. consumers afloat.
From Salon ● Aug. 29, 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
Experiments using visual stimuli could help identify which brain regions are required for conscious perception.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 4, 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
The meeting lasts thirty more minutes, during which time I do not speak or move or in any way respond to stimuli.
From "Will Grayson, Will Grayson" by John Green and David Levithan
Vocabulary lists containing stimulus
The Alchemist
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"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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