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stimulating

adjective B2
  1. Having a manner that stimulates; serving to stimulate.
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His eager face still wore that expression of intense and high-strung energy, which showed me that some novel and suggestive circumstance had opened up a stimulating line of thought.
Sherlock Holmes: The Bruce-Partington Plans, p. 15 · B2
The invalid sank back upon his cushions, tired out by this long recital, while his nurse poured him out a glass of some stimulating medicine.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 72 · B2
Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 2 · C1
There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 57 · C1

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