pressure cooker

Example Sentences

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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

“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

Wales have spent the week together in Nice away from the pressure cooker back home but they know what awaits inside Stadio Olimpico.

From BBC • Feb. 7, 2025

Four eyes in two hulking bodies; they put me in a pressure cooker.

From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon