Sample Sentences for
stimulate
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    Done to stimulate responses in the killzone, where the Flare does its damage.†  (source)
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    Tea and snacks could no longer stimulate our exhausted minds.†  (source)
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    But how to provoke, how to stimulate purchases—that's the conversion rate.†  (source)
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    Apparently the change is stimulated by an environment in which all the animals are of the same sex.†  (source)
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    When their egg production begins to drop, the hens will be "force-molted" — starved of food, water, and light for several days in order to stimulate a final spurt of egg laying before their life's work is done.†  (source)
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    He reminisced about the stimulating conversations that took place in rustic pubs over warm beer.†  (source)
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    Can't get too much stimulation, apparently.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    This substance evidently stimulates the normal working behavior in the hive.†  (source)
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    Only those Monsters and Demons who were still in the initial stage could give their overstimulated brains the thrill they craved, like the red cape of the matador.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "over-" in overstimulated means excessively. This is the same pattern as seen in words like overconfident, overemphasize, and overinflate.
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    Consider the wastes incidental to the blind and haphazard production of commodities—the factories closed, the workers idle, the goods spoiling in storage; consider the activities of the stock manipulator, the paralyzing of whole industries, the overstimulation of others, for speculative purposes; the assignments and bank failures, the crises and panics, the deserted towns and the starving populations!†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "over-" in overstimulation means excessive. This is the same pattern as seen in words like overconfident, overemphasize, and overstimulate.
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    The fear grows shadowy; and Imagination, the enemy of men, the father of all terrors, unstimulated, sinks to rest in the dullness of exhausted emotion.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unstimulated means not and reverses the meaning of stimulated. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    But I found most books boring and unstimulating.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unstimulating means not and reverses the meaning of stimulating. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    The bullets were whining and whistling so stimulatingly around him and his horse was so eager to go that he could not restrain himself.†  (source)
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