pressure cooker

Example Sentences

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The piñas must get to a pressure cooker within 24 hours, where the sugars can be extracted.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026

“That kind of pressure cooker, over time, has an effect on somebody. That has affected who he is now.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

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

From MarketWatch • Mar. 13, 2026

Add in the pressure cooker of those final-stage matches and the lopsided talent in the England squad, and it becomes harder to believe Tuchel can infuse international management with Premier League intensity.

From BBC • Mar. 21, 2025

There was a hallway, a living room downstairs, and a kitchen in which he showed her pots and pans and a pressure cooker and a kerosene ishtop.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini