under stress
Example Sentences
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A fund holding consumer and small-business loans made by companies including Affirm and Block is the latest corner of the private-credit market to come under stress.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026
The cells produced higher levels of energy molecules while resting but struggled to boost energy production when under stress.
From Science Daily • Mar. 12, 2026
But under stress, this interconnectedness could rapidly transmit shocks.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 26, 2026
No one in a position to insist on safeguards actually knew how they would perform under stress.
From Barron's • Feb. 24, 2026
Langdon was such a copy of what he had been at the same age that it seemed, under stress of certain memories, almost wrong to reprove him.
From Ann Boyd by Harben, Will N. (Will Nathaniel)
