adequate stimulus

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A stimulus to which a particular receptor responds effectively and that gives rise to a characteristic sensation.

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Words nearby adequate stimulus

“The government failed to show that it had adequate basis for the certification,” he wrote in August.
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Supporters of the president argue these trends are inevitable and the Stimulus made a terrible situation better.
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“I spent about a year criticizing Hillary Clinton for not providing adequate security for Benghazi,” he recalled.
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First, they let the stimulus boost expire, which that meant an average family of three receiving benefits lost $29 per month.
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It is “yo,” the absence of reason, the sound of a simply occupying and desperate stimulus.
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Judged from this point of view only, the elasticity provided by the new law is doubtless adequate.
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First, how about the expansibility needed to supply adequate funds for crop-moving?
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Adequate conception of the extent, the variety, the excellence of the works of Art here heaped together is impossible.
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In one sense, then, the new issue has adequate expansibility for ordinary needs.
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Outsiders lack adequate motives for sending the notes home; issuers lack adequate motives for calling them home.
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