stressor
Example Sentences
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Classroom technology use has been a stressor for India Brookover of Granada Hills, whose daughter will be entering transitional kindergarten, or TK, next year and whose screen time in preschool has been near zero.
From Los Angeles Times
Finances are a stressor; likewise his rather abundant weight and tendency to stress-eat.
Rather than help people learn to be resilient in an unpredictable world, institutions use these concepts to try to eliminate stressors.
He said Dow is looking to “move to more ductile, durable products that even when subjected to extreme stressors, if it does break up, it doesn’t break up into small particles.”
"What makes this work unique is the integration of shock wave physics and chemical biology with molecular cell biology to probe how life might cope with such Mars-like stressors," says Dhage.
From Science Daily
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