pressure cooker

Example Sentences

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

From MarketWatch • Mar. 13, 2026

Said LaPoma, “We knew it was important then, but it didn’t seem to be the wild pressure cooker situation it is now.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 8, 2025

It was such a pressure cooker in so many ways.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 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

It was, quite simply, the first pressure cooker, a sealed bain-marie.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton