stimuli
Americannoun
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At the hospital, one of the officers requested that Cervantes submit to a “subjective sobriety test” that included measuring her eye’s response to stimuli, according to the complaint.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026
By encoding these digital patterns within the hydrogel, the researchers can program how the smart skin reacts to different stimuli.
From Science Daily • Feb. 6, 2026
But I love the answer that they gave Zosia to give: You can’t possibly take in all of the feelings and the stimuli that the whole world is having right now.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 24, 2025
She had tried traditional therapy, as well as interventions like eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy, where a patient is asked to recall traumatic events while experiencing auditory, visual, or tactile stimuli.
From Slate • Dec. 18, 2025
The stimuli that set them off at the outset, building collectively instead of shifting things about, may be pheromones released when they reach committee size.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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