pressures
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“Elevated mortgage rates, softening labor market conditions, tariff-driven construction-cost pressures, higher energy prices and persistent geopolitical uncertainty are collectively weighing on housing activity — spanning construction, sales, affordability and mortgage performance,” the ratings agency said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
Rather it was the suggestion that the unique safeguards Amodei built to resist market pressures at Anthropic are failing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
A spokesperson for the BBC said the decision was down to "significant financial pressures", as it attempts to make £500m of savings.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
“With a resurgence in fuel prices and trade tensions, consumers anticipate greater pressures on their pocketbooks to come,” Joanne Hsu, the director of the Surveys of Consumers, said.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026
A story was direct and simple, allowing nothing to come between herself and her reader—no intermediaries with their private ambitions or incompetence, no pressures of time, no limits on resources.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
