stress
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After suffering two stress fractures in the space of four months, Smith sought professional help and was diagnosed with REDs – relative energy deficiency in sport.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
Some scientists say plants designed to emit early stress signals could provide a productivity boost to farmers battling climate and environmental pressures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
Signs of stress in credit markets have begun to emerge, especially among neocloud companies fighting to keep pace in the AI race.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
Decades later, while incarcerated in Florida, he was finally diagnosed with service-connected post-traumatic stress disorder from his experience.
From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026
The stress of finding out otherwise would be too much for her.”
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
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Ansari stresses that, as with any supplement, creatine should be complementary to diet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
The United Steelworkers union said that although it recognizes the stresses on Canada’s steel industry, difficult market conditions can’t automatically erase commitments that were central to the approval of a major foreign acquisition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
What comes after “wine moms”: When Susannah Bradley was raising her young children, wine was many mom’s vice of choice to help them cope with the stresses of parenting.
From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2026
Vieira said feeling scared about monsters is a "fun escape" from the stresses of her everyday life as an A&E doctor.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
When you talk, your voice, with its pauses, stresses, rises, and falls, shows how you intend your words to fit together.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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“We were really stressed at that point and to head that off, we started restricting the major,” Atul Prakash, chair of computer science and engineering at Michigan, told MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
Social network VK confirmed a drone had targeted its regional data centre, but stressed its services were available "as usual" after users reported outages in the early hours of the morning.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
The people I’ve talked to at Netflix stressed this is not AI-related.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
Padilla stressed that the new Senate observers would have no role in administering elections or handling ballots.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
The FBI stressed it was also for the security of his parents and family who were still living in Germany.
From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple
Tesla is also stressing its margins through massive spending on A.I., so the company doesn’t look like the EV juggernaut it once was.
From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026
The Guardian awarded the film five stars, external, calling it "a modern masterpiece of deceit", stressing how "TV's grand illusionist meets his match when he moves in with Theranos founder and her family".
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
Officials at the World Petroleum Congress on Monday echoed his message, with many stressing that disrupting Saudi energy supplies would have consequences beyond its borders.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
On Tuesday, Rubio sought to smooth over such difficulties, stressing that Washington wouldn’t expand its military activities in Iceland without the country’s cooperation and emphasizing U.S. respect for its sovereignty.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
At the house, I figured my parents were fighting because the move was stressing them out.
From "A Soft Place to Land" by Janae Marks
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