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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
understimulate .
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Examples
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There are kids who we think have ADHD, but they are really just electronically overstimulated and interpersonally understimulated.
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"There are kids that we think have ADHD, but they are really just electronically overstimulated and interpersonally understimulated."
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"There are kids that we think have ADHD, but they are really just electronically overstimulated and interpersonally understimulated."
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That earnestness, Dawes admits, coincided with other characteristics: a feeling of being isolated and often understimulated.
Johnny Dawes: 'It's about doing something that's fun… and impossible' 2012
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Others were understimulated in their cognitive and social development, particularly their faculty of language.
Nomad Ayaan Hirsi Ali 2010
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Others were understimulated in their cognitive and social development, particularly their faculty of language.
Nomad Ayaan Hirsi Ali 2010
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Others were understimulated in their cognitive and social development, particularly their faculty of language.
Nomad Ayaan Hirsi Ali 2010
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Lack of stress means that your body is understimulated.
Moderation is best. 2008
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I found your blog b/c I was understimulated at work and started Googling - I found all sorts of weird stuff.
3 oz. of liquid 2008
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Instead, he is compelled to offer up little tidbits that he thinks challenge orthodoxy, and therefore will be of interest on the op-ed page, a motivation that I typically observe in the intellectually understimulated.
Andrea Batista Schlesinger: Don't Worry, Says the American Enterprise Institute -- Be Happy! 2008
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