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.
• The fall of the Soviet Union brought a confusion of stimuli.
  — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The city used federal stimulus dollars to keep the budget roaring.
  — cleveland, 4 Feb. 2023
• 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
• 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
• And these entrepreneurs will need to be resourceful, even courageous, with what little they’ve been given — perhaps a small grant, or even a stimulus check.
  — John C. (jack) Lewin and Jane Delgado, STAT, 18 Jan. 2024
• Instead, the animals here learned to interpret the two stimuli as a single trigger, and so started needing both to respond.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 22 Mar. 2023
• As Saladino notes, the way lots of people train their abs only depends on ramping up the volume of reps to increase the muscle-building stimulus.
  — Jeff Tomko, Men's Health, 25 July 2023
• Same interests, same knowledge, same values, same responses to the same stimuli?
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2023
• Wall Street banks saw a surge in deposits during the pandemic as customers and businesses stashed away cash from stimulus measures.
  — Sridhar Natarajan and Katherine Doherty, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Mar. 2023
• By binding to these receptors, delta 8 can help regulate the body's response to stimuli that trigger feelings of queasiness.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 14 Aug. 2023
• Instead the figures easily topped forecasts, making January the largest monthly sales bump since March 2021 when a third round of stimulus checks were cut.
  — Alicia Wallace, CNN, 15 Feb. 2023
• Psychedelics have been shown to reduce the amygdala’s overreaction to negative stimuli.
  — Jennifer Chesak, Verywell Health, 12 Oct. 2023
• The Fed’s hiking campaign was triggered by high inflation spurred partly by Biden’s stimulus bill.
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 8 Feb. 2023
• Republicans, recognizing that, as the party in power, they would be blamed if the economy tanked, were the ones to first propose stimulus checks.
  — Matthew Desmond, The New York Review of Books, 28 Dec. 2023
• This is believed to be caused by having more sensitive amygdalas (the part of the brain that processes fearful and threatening stimuli) and nervous systems.
  — Laura Newberry, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2023
• Low interest rates and high consumer spending, fueled by stimulus checks and the rollout of the coronavirus vaccines, helped bolster it.
  — J. Edward Moreno, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2024
• When the economy has flagged in the past, Beijing has turned to fiscal stimulus to boost construction and real estate projects, lifting demand for steel and cement.
  — Sara Schonhardt, Scientific American, 16 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024