pressure cooker

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This year’s UConn team shows just how well a team can respond when they are handpicked for his pressure cooker.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

Tax preparation is a seasonal business — and a hectic pressure cooker.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 13, 2026

Add in the pressure cooker of those final-stage matches and the lopsided talent in the England squad, and it becomes harder to believe Tuchel can infuse international management with Premier League intensity.

From BBC • Mar. 21, 2025

“The White Lotus,” which was filmed its first season on location at the Four Seasons in Maui, somehow made an exclusive resort seem like a toxic pressure cooker.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2025

The women were cooking and I could smell onions frying already, could hear the phht-phht of a pressure cooker, music, laughter.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini