pressing
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Mayor Karen Bass and City Council members have accepted LA28’s annual reports since 2021, asking some questions but not publicly pressing for all the details that The Times and Mejia have requested.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026
It was also, rather unexpectedly, devoid of anything remotely related to what Pocognoli laid out as his non-negotiables - front-foot pressing, high intensity, speed of thought and mind, goal threat.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
Serbia's long-time populist President Aleksandar Vucic resigned Sunday to run for prime minister in October snap elections after nearly two years of student-led protests that had been pressing for just such a poll.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
Trade reported the steel industry has “been pressing for Mexico to implement protections that are equivalent to U.S. restrictions on non-North American trade, which include a 50 percent national security duty on nearly all partners.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
Maybe I felt guilty for pressing pause on helping Dad out of his funk.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
Sonically improved to levels never before achievable, and accompanied by a lavish and detailed 100-page book, the 5-CD, 118-track boxed set encompasses all of her released sides and a good many outtakes and test pressings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
The first two pressings sold out in just five days via pre-order.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2025
When Swift drops an album, there are upward of five different vinyl pressings, all in their own color variant, with edition-specific bonus tracks and other exclusives—and all costing $30-plus each.
From Slate ● Jun. 19, 2024
The first impression copy is one of only 1,500 original pressings of the fantasy novel - that went on to spawn Tolkien's universe of Middle-Earth .
From BBC ● May 20, 2024
About the pressings he'd made since he was little, and the cuttings he collected.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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