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stimulus

[stim-yuh-luhs] / ˈstɪm jə ləs /


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However, when participants experienced the painful heat stimulus, the same network became less active, following the brain's typical response to acute pain.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026

Ultralow mortgage rates and pandemic-era government stimulus cause an increase in home-buying.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

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

I tried to concentrate on all the stimulus, and the fun, all of it.

From "Feed" by M.T. Anderson

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

Multi-part performance of any kind requires the child to focus intensely on their part, training the brain to produce one part while acknowledging additional auditory stimuli coming from the other parts.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin


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