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Montreux was slightly less so and felt like a “one-man show,” while Lollapalooza and Outside Lands were stimulating.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 8, 2025

By using low prices as a selling point, platforms and merchants were stimulating "low-level" consumption, which was in not in line with China's goals to achieve high-quality development, it added.

From Reuters • Nov. 12, 2021

These four were stimulating to interview because the conversation flicked back and forth so easily between the technical and the recreational.

From Forbes • Sep. 9, 2013

All lived well, never got tired, had a glorious time, stimulated and were stimulating.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was a pleasant morning: the windows were open; the schoolrooms were all well ventilated; the teachers, the best of their kind, were stimulating in their lectures and in their conversation.

From The Rebel of the School by Meade, L. T.