Definitions
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- adjective That does not
stimulate
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- adjective not stimulating
Etymologies
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Examples
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It is key to get kids who live in unstimulating environments out of them so that they develop language and social skills.
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McDonald's Corp. is working hard to redefine "McJob," a word various dictionaries define as unstimulating, low-paying employment with few prospects.
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I recommend hyperbole to fiction writers in part because so many manuscripts are drab, flat, humdrum, unstimulating, safe.
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The system needs women to be content with unstimulating careers.
Women: the patriarchy needs YOUR support! « Digital immigrant 2009
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Oh, and put another group of children DELIBERATELY in a very unstimulating environment where educational achievement was not highly regarded.
The Volokh Conspiracy » 1. Science, Faith, and Not Ruling Out Possibilities 2010
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“Special Ed” is likely to be overcrowded and underfunded, as kids are often coming from families with little sophistication in how the education system works to begin with, into what may be an unstimulating, discouraging, and even threatening environment.
Freshwater: The Board's rebuttal case - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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To be freed, on a pension, from what seems to be an unstimulating clerical job, and to be independent enough not to have to go looking for another, is bound to strike at least some of your colleagues as a pretty cushy deal.
Dear Jeremy 2010
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Oh, and put another group of children DELIBERATELY in a very unstimulating environment where educational achievement was not highly regarded.
The Volokh Conspiracy » 1. Science, Faith, and Not Ruling Out Possibilities 2010
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Bad enough that some House Democrats took the November results as permission to gratify every pent-up urge, no matter how unstimulating.
Rick Horowitz: Those Republicans Know How to Throw a Party 2009
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They should always subsist on a plain, simple, unstimulating, vegetable, and water diet; and care should be taken that they do not eat too fast, and are not excessive, in quantity.
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