Examples of stressor in a Sentence
Credit card debt is a major stressor in her life.
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About 89 percent of pet parents in New Hampshire felt travel separation anxiety was a key stressor.
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Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025
Travel tips Flight delays and cancellations aren’t the only stressors.
—Sarah Hutter, CNN Money, 25 Nov. 2025
High levels of cumulative stress have also been shown to accelerate the aging process in some people and make facing new stressors feel more daunting.
—Emma Loewe, Outside, 24 Nov. 2025
The researchers determined that UV radiation was the single biggest stressor for the moss, and that the sporophytes handled it — and the other hardships — much better than the juvenile moss and moss stem cells did.
—Mike Wall, Space.com, 22 Nov. 2025
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Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025
Travel tips Flight delays and cancellations aren’t the only stressors.
—Sarah Hutter, CNN Money, 25 Nov. 2025
High levels of cumulative stress have also been shown to accelerate the aging process in some people and make facing new stressors feel more daunting.
—Emma Loewe, Outside, 24 Nov. 2025
The researchers determined that UV radiation was the single biggest stressor for the moss, and that the sporophytes handled it — and the other hardships — much better than the juvenile moss and moss stem cells did.
—Mike Wall, Space.com, 22 Nov. 2025
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“Stressor.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stressor. Accessed 1 Dec. 2025.
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