How to Use stimulus in a Sentence

stimulus

noun
  • The dog responded to the stimulus of the ringing bell.
  • The pay raise was a stimulus for production.
  • Heat and light are physical stimuli.
  • This means that 90% of the stimulus goes to one side while 10% goes to the other.
    Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 2 May 2024
  • But for all the visual stimuli that Kraftwerk crammed into the evening, the real star of the show was the sound design.
    Andrew Barker, Variety, 22 May 2024
  • The fall of the Soviet Union brought a confusion of stimuli.
    Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Adding the fly to your routine gives your pecs and front deltoids a new stimulus.
    Brett Williams, Men's Health, 7 Dec. 2022
  • The shape change comes about in response to an outside stimulus.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 30 Aug. 2022
  • New York City schools, the largest district in the country, received over $7 billion in stimulus funds.
    Shruti Date Singh and Nic Querolo Bloomberg News (tns), Arkansas Online, 25 Sep. 2023
  • The stimulus checks – one worth as much as $1,500 – are meant to help Americans struggling to pay for the rising costs of food, gas and housing.
    Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al, 24 Jan. 2023
  • But that all changed when the pandemic closed the economy and forced the release of trillions of dollars in stimulus.
    Robert E. Lighthizer, Foreign Affairs, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Economists have called for fiscal stimulus for months, and say this is a small step in the right direction.
    WSJ, 25 Oct. 2023
  • So, all the math and science that people looked at for years has kind of gotten thrown straight because a massive stimulus went in.
    CBS News, 4 Dec. 2022
  • Some of those young workers put their stimulus checks into the stock market, some researchers have found.
    Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 7 Feb. 2024
  • That’s because these kinds of stimuli can lead to head-splitting aches, nausea, dizziness, and fatigue.
    Julia Sullivan, SELF, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Each stimulus can trigger the rise of one set of molecules in an animal’s body and perhaps the fall of others.
    Veronique Greenwood, Quanta Magazine, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The second question is, was there more stimulus applied to the Covid issues than needed.
    CBS News, 11 Aug. 2024
  • Households above the poverty line were thus more likely to receive stimulus checks and the child tax credit than those below it.
    Matthew Desmond, The New York Review of Books, 28 Dec. 2023
  • Carly points out that the prostate and G-Spot are roughly equivalent, and that your body’s response to stimulus can change due to hormones.
    Evelyn Bauer, Them, 16 Aug. 2024
  • The city used federal stimulus dollars to keep the budget roaring.
    cleveland, 4 Feb. 2023
  • The new tax policy was tucked into the stimulus package known as the American Rescue Plan, which Democrats passed in 2021.
    Alan Rappeport, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2022
  • One of the most common ways is to avoid rewarding dogs for reacting to negative stimuli.
    Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 12 Apr. 2024
  • That threat activates a part of the brain called the amygdala, which serves as a center that processes both fearful and threatening stimuli.
    Naomi Weinshenker, Discover Magazine, 2 Mar. 2023
  • There are two main kinds of dopamine signaling; dopamine is released when a neuron fires in response to some specific stimuli.
    Celia Ford, Vox, 22 May 2024
  • What’s more, the extra savings that Americans amassed in the pandemic — thanks to stimulus checks and lockdowns — are running out.
    Anna Wong, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2023
  • No, this seems like such a. Fundamental, easy step to take to help children, especially when they’ve been awash in money from the, from the stimulus.
    Laura Johnston, cleveland, 1 Sep. 2023
  • That’s less year-over-year growth than in the last few years, when shoppers had stimulus payments and pandemic-era savings to fuel their buying.
    Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Nov. 2023
  • This stimulus causes tiny tears in your muscles, which then mend back together bigger and stronger.
    Christa Sgobba, SELF, 18 Mar. 2024
  • The earnings season is off to a shaky start, and there are major doubts over whether China’s stimulus efforts can boost the region’s faltering economy.
    Jason Ma, Fortune Europe, 21 Oct. 2024
  • Hsu’s comments on Baidu come as Chinese markets have been in the spotlight following the government’s announcement of stimulus measures in the hopes of reviving the nation’s ailing economy.
    Amala Balakrishner, CNBC, 27 Oct. 2024

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