pressure
Example Sentences
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In some cases, it might even have made them worse: raising demand, and therefore prices, for things like housing and adding pressure on social services like healthcare.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026
The piñas must get to a pressure cooker within 24 hours, where the sugars can be extracted.
From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026
“You could see downward pressure on the dollar as those investors monetize their gains” once the lockup period ends, Wallerstein said.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026
The move, announced by the UC-wide Academic Senate’s Board of Admissions and Relations with Schools, comes amid mounting pressure from UC faculty and outside activists over the test-free approach.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026
For the rest of the walk he spared me the pressure of trying to sound intelligent, addressing me only to point out loose stones or other hazards of the street made invisible by the dark.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
Vocabulary lists containing pressure
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