pressures

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While investors have largely treated the latest energy-driven inflation pressures as temporary, the buffers that had helped absorb the shock from lost oil supply may be fading, Evercore’s Altman said.

From MarketWatch • May 18, 2026

But he added that the broadcaster faces "very real challenges", and he must now decide how to make £500m cuts to tackle what the BBC has described as "significant financial pressures".

From BBC • May 18, 2026

First, walking upright freed the hands from locomotion, creating new pressures that favored more specialized and asymmetric hand use.

From Science Daily • May 18, 2026

On top of pressures to modernize their programs, schools face the prospect of students choosing less education in their path to becoming certified public accountants.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

Perhaps some bands were driven north by wars, demographic pressures or natural disasters.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari