pressures

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This might ease inflationary pressures and soothe investor worries over central banks’ rate increases that typically reduce the non-interest-bearing appeal of the precious metal.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

The IMF warned about "difficult choices" over rising pressures from spending on ageing, defence and the climate transition over the next 20 years.

From BBC • May 18, 2026

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

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

He had told everyone that his father was the igwe of his hometown, and had sent him to Lagos to live with an uncle until he turned twenty-one, to avoid the pressures of princely life.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie