STIMULI Synonyms: 33 Similar and Opposite Words

stimuli

noun

plural of stimulus

as in incentives

something that arouses action or activity seeing a Broadway play for the first time was the stimulus for her career in the theater

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Recent Examples of stimuli What is your approach to writing, in terms of outside stimuli? — Mikey O'Connell, HollywoodReporter, 24 Aug. 2026 The third is to develop novel variations of your stimuli or your benchmark items in order to test robustness and generalization. — Quanta Magazine, 20 Aug. 2026 Between these stimuli, strange thoughts move through my semi-conscious mind, the kind of free association that feels normal in sleep and bizarre in life. — Veronique Greenwood, Time, 18 Aug. 2026 Winning ideas included fracturing rocks with fluid pressure or mechanical stimuli, exposing them to catalysts to speed hydrogen-generating reactions, and manipulating native microbial communities to enhance production. — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Aug. 2026 How 40 Hz Sound Therapy Works The treatment is called GENUS, short for gamma entrainment using sensory stimuli. — Samantha Agate, Sacbee.com, 13 July 2026 Chung recently received her first award from the National Institutes of Health for a research project to understand how genetically identical cells respond differently to stimuli, such as treatments or environmental cues. — Rachel Martin, Hartford Courant, 11 July 2026 By integrating smart shades into the components of major smart home ecosystems (those supporting Matter, Thread, Zigbee, or Z-Wave specifically), these systems can react to real-time stimuli. — K.h. Koehler, USA Today, 30 June 2026 When your dopamine levels, the chemical baseline responsible for motivation and pursuit, are naturally low, your brain searches for quick stimuli to wake itself up. — Luciana Paulise, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026

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The study adds a new wrinkle to the ongoing debate over whether these increasingly expensive corporate incentives are worth their cost to taxpayers.

— Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2026
The merger threatens to push production further abroad amid an already ongoing exodus, as well as to other states with cushy tax incentives.

— Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of incentives

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Many folks send encouragements toward OP mom and her son, while others put heat on the other parents for sexualizing their kids’ friendship.

— DeVonne Goode, Parents, 26 July 2026
All through the park, competitors and onlookers hit vapes and shout tips and encouragements into trees.

— Calin Van Paris, Outside, 19 Mar. 2026

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