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"Lives are being put at risk, staff are under intolerable strain, and patients are bearing the brunt of the crisis that is continuing to unfold at the health board," he said.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

The attacks near the border had put immense psychological strain on local people, Piotrowski explained.

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

To investigate that question, the researchers tested the MTB strain AMB-1 in C. elegans, a widely used model organism for aging research.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 2026

A virulent strain can kill more children in a bad year regardless of vaccine uptake, and the annual death toll has occasionally whipsawed for other reasons.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

“I don’t know this man!” said Mr. Jaggers, in the same devastating strain: “What does this fellow want?”

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

Even more strikingly, most of the flavoalkaloids appeared primarily in just one of the three strains.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

Others said the proposal would complicate Social Security and add to the strains on the program.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

"No matter what's going on financially, whatever stresses and strains we've got, it's always an accessible price point for us to be able to come and be sorted for the week."

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

Both have done so willingly, but not obliviously to the financial and other strains that couples have put on them and other guests.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

The other, inoculated with the same mixture of strains, was left at room temperature.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Harry and King Charles have had a strained relationship since the Duke and Duchess of Sussex stepped down as senior working royals and moved to the US.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

In a time of strained affordability, people are sharply aware how important gas is for their everyday lives.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

Those fees have fallen as security risks have increased, and that has hurt an already strained government fisc.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

The invisible labor can spill into strained marriages, chronic stress and the feeling of constantly treading water.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

Klava Fomicheva’s navigator, Galina “Galya” Turabelidze, strained to keep her eyes on Masha’s blazing plane so she would know where it went down.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

Major stock indexes hovering near records are masking a market straining under elevated oil prices, rising Treasury yields and a Federal Reserve bracing for additional interest-rate hikes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

Last week, he posted a picture of Harp straining under an oversized pack, while observing that its size did nothing to quell “diaper bag allegations.”

From Salon ● Sep. 16, 2026

In Vientiane, a power line once used for one household now covers whole apartment blocks with many units, straining old transformers.

From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026

Instead of straining vegetables and pasta, you can use a colander to achieve a similar effect to that of the pinhole projector.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

The ranges of the four voices overlap, but singers may find themselves straining or getting an unpleasant sound at the top or a weak sound at the bottom of their ranges.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones