stress
Example Sentences
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This is our body’s survival mechanism, evolved over many centuries, to slow our metabolism down and conserve energy during times of famine or stress.
For Principal Pamela Magee, reopening day was one of “happy stress.”
From Los Angeles Times
It is a highly engineered system whose behavior under stress is well understood.
Fitch expects short-term tariff relief to stabilize profits among exporter clients, while indirectly supporting domestically focused corporate borrowers through improved earnings, and easing banks’ loan stress.
And don’t stress about names; you can always reintroduce yourself later.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
