pressure

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Saints' comeback nearly failed to get going as Hastings dotted down against his former club under pressure from Field as he just about squeezed the ball down before he went in to touch.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

She has talked about how she brought a reclining chair into management team meetings at Meta, where she previously led the Facebook app, to make sure her blood pressure didn’t drop.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

And that creates pressure on the private funds as investors get the opportunity to sell the more expensive private funds and buy the cheaper public ones.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

Somehow, without the pressure of being everything to each other, we became better.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

By 11:00 P.M. the night before, the pressure had already exceeded the maximum that the vessel was meant to hold.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland