pressure cooker

Example Sentences

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

From MarketWatch • Mar. 13, 2026

Shale drillers have turned the biggest oil field in the U.S. into a pressure cooker that is literally bursting at the seams.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025

She’d been raised on the basketball court in that kind of pressure cooker, shouldering whatever burden was asked of her otherworldly talent.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2025

Confidence among UK firms has "slumped" as they face a "pressure cooker of rising costs and taxes", according to a business group.

From BBC • Jan. 5, 2025

The pressure cooker sat on the stove, leaking stewing steak fumes.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell