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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Nicotine, the drug found in tobacco, is a stimulant .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Doctor Baker came and gave me a stimulant .
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Government expenditure, concentrated now on armaments rather than railways as in the late nineteenth century, also remained a major stimulant .
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Indeed, neuropeptide Y is the most potent central stimulant of feeding known.
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It is not a direct stimulant , like a shot of adrenaline.
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My presence is intended as he puts it, merely as a stimulant .
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Scalp stimulants can help to revitalise dormant hair follicles by increasing the blood flow to the scalp.
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There wasn't a murmur of disapproval from the drug testers - all the ingredients were natural and contained no chemical stimulants.