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  • adverb In a stimulating manner.

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stimulating +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • The selection of works at MoMA juxtaposes media stimulatingly, and there is an excellent catalog introduction by Starr Figura.

    The Way to All Flesh Bell, Julian 2008

  • Geneva lost a familiar figure — the long bent back, the halting gait, the head quizzically on one side — and the world lost a stimulatingly aggressive mind.

    The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006

  • Based upon my knowledge of the literature, her input is almost invariably direct, astute, and stimulatingly written – even on the few occasions where I deign to differ.

    Curry's Comments on Klotzbach « Climate Audit 2006

  • The bullets were whining and whistling so stimulatingly around him and his horse was so eager to go that he could not restrain himself.

    War and Peace 2003

  • Your account of Mrs. Stowe was stimulatingly interesting.

    The Life of Charlotte Bronte 2002

  • This was - I believe - a good start, and was brought about by the achievements of the great masters W.H. Gaskell and J.N. Langley, and had been given shape in an easily comprehensible and stimulatingly graphic exposition by the distinguished pharmacologists H.H. Meyer and R. Gottlieb.

    Walter Hess - Nobel Lecture 1964

  • His appeal to the intellect was stimulatingly strong; it was like a stinging wind, that made one walk at a reckless pace, and brought the blood tingling through every vein.

    The Daughters of Danaus Mona Caird

  • However, the mere fact that the Saint was involved made the item meaty enough from a journalistic standpoint to justify the expenditure of ink, and it is probable that hardly any of the readers felt that the space could have been more stimulatingly and entertainingly employed.

    The Saint on Guard Charteris, Leslie, 1907- 1943

  • Because a writer or investigator is a sober, careful body and quite solvent in a modest way, that is no reason why we should not pay him stimulatingly for his valuable contributions to the general mind, or because he is a shiftless seeker of misfortunes, why we should pay him in excess.

    Mankind in the Making 1906

  • Because a writer or investigator is a sober, careful body and quite solvent in a modest way, that is no reason why we should not pay him stimulatingly for his valuable contributions to the general mind, or because he is a shiftless seeker of misfortunes, why we should pay him in excess.

    Mankind in the Making Herbert George 1903

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