under stress
Example Sentences
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The document laid out a series of parameters that needed to be met for an area to be defined as under stress, such as the ratio between house prices and incomes there.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
The global oil market is under stress from the Iran war, but by and large it does a good job of matching supply and demand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
"Those 5,000 people comprise a community. Not just men and women under stress. It's a community under stress."
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
"By running the earthquake history of Southern California as a simulation, we can estimate the extent to which the fault system is already under stress today."
From Science Daily ● Jun. 18, 2026
A person who has had neuralgia previously may, and very likely will, during this epoch, be subject to recurrence of the old affection under stress of exhaustion of any kind.
From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Francis E. Anstie
