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- noun Plural form of
stimulation .
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Examples
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Certainly, the government would have the power to regulate whether certain stimulations are appropriate for minors.
Are Holodeck Programs Protected Speech? | Heretical Ideas Magazine 2009
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Using high-tech thermal probes, the researchers exposed the left calf area of each participant to a series of painful and non-painful heated "stimulations" ranging from 37º C
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"stimulations" but it is simply a wish for rescue and certainly not a forgone conclusion.
Japan Stocks News and Analysis from Seeking Alpha Sarel Oberholster 2009
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Other than the initial training them to it, which took maybe 3-5 negative stimulations before a dog caught on, that function rarely gets used.
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Other than the initial training them to it, which took maybe 3-5 negative stimulations before a dog caught on, that function rarely gets used.
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So, at this era of having too many stimulations in the world, where online dating makes it easy to find hundreds of matches, on the surface and instantaneously; it takes a strong-willed individual to be able to focus on what s/he really wants and to find her/his way through that.
Roya R. Rad, MA, PsyD: Are You in a Healthy and Committed Relationship? Roya R. Rad 2011
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Rats whose whisker stimulations started immediately didn't experience the major brain-tissue damage, poor blood flow to the brain and impaired behavior that the other rats suffered.
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While the results of these stimulations in advanced economies were limited, the Chinese stimulus policies delivered incredibly significant and effective responses.
China's Stimulus May Be A Curse In Disguise Yongheng Deng 2010
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Growth will be suppressed by distortions that were caused by the initial stimulations and by the government regulation that come along with them.
Dr. Peter Breggin: Stimulus Packages and Prozac: The Unintended Consequences of Intervention 2009
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During the fifties and sixties of the past century, it was proved that human nervous system and behavior can be thoroughly controlled by electric signals imported to the brain by tiny electrodes (41). 100 stimulations of one point in the bull's brain made him 100 times bellow.
Means of Information War Threaten Democracy and Mankind 2009
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