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as in stress
the burden on one's emotional or mental well-being created by demands on one's time
a business executive who works well under pressure
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as in constraint
the use of power to impose one's will on another
pressure from their peers can often cause teens to do things that they normally wouldn't consider
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as in to force
to cause (a person) to give in to pressure
his father pressured him to go out for the swim team
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Recent Examples of pressure
Laura Tillman, Hartford Courant, 25 Mar. 2026
Gray Davis’s own experience demonstrates that staying the course despite mounting pressure to withdraw can lead to unexpected political breakthroughs, suggesting that the outcome of this primary remains genuinely uncertain.
—Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2026
ABC News, 23 Mar. 2026
On his way to Beijing, Cook also visited Chengdu, China, as Apple has been pressured to cut its China App Store fees.
—Eunice Yoon,evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 23 Mar. 2026
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Noun
Eva Bermúdez Zimmerman, executive director of Child Care For CT, said that the Manchester closure reflects broader pressures eroding the existing care infrastructure.
—Laura Tillman, Hartford Courant, 25 Mar. 2026
Gray Davis’s own experience demonstrates that staying the course despite mounting pressure to withdraw can lead to unexpected political breakthroughs, suggesting that the outcome of this primary remains genuinely uncertain.
—Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2026
Verb
Sensing the momentum Lendeborg created, coach Dusty May immediately applied the screws by pressuring Saint Louis coming up the court and suffocating any last gasp of a comeback.
—ABC News, 23 Mar. 2026
On his way to Beijing, Cook also visited Chengdu, China, as Apple has been pressured to cut its China App Store fees.
—Eunice Yoon,evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 23 Mar. 2026
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Just two weeks ago, Gary Woodland decided ot shared his struggles with post traumatic stress disorder, brought on after a September 2023 surgery, which involved a baseball-sized hole cut from the side of his head, to remove a brain lesion.—
Andrew McCarty,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Mar. 2026
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And that might reduce the stress that leads to anger.—
Christopher Elliott,
USA Today,
31 Mar. 2026
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However, their work now takes place as the Iran war creates serious supply constraints for essential fertilizer products — fueling massive price spikes and warnings of looming food insecurity.—
Chloe Taylor,Sam Meredith,
CNBC,
25 Mar. 2026
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One of the biggest constraints Landowner introduced when recording Assumption was relieving drummer Josh Daniel of his longtime producer duties.—
Nina Corcoran,
Pitchfork,
24 Mar. 2026
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The other key will be avoiding turnovers, as South Carolina is forcing more than 18 per game.—
Steven Johnson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
30 Mar. 2026
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Soft, adjustable lighting, outdoor rain showers with peepholes framing the scenery, incredibly comfy poolside daybeds, super-crisp sheets, open-plan bathrooms with capacious closets—everything works, but nothing feels forced or superfluous.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
30 Mar. 2026
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Games like Five Nights at Epstein’s are adding to the strain.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
26 Mar. 2026
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Smith has been dealing with a right calf strain since late January that has forced him to miss a total of 12 games.—
Julia Poe,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Mar. 2026
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Christgau has 14,000 reviews and counting, and that’s his glory and his compulsion.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
29 Mar. 2026
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As the investigation twists and intensifies, Izzy is forced to confront her own compulsions and the personal cost of her pursuit of justice.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
20 Mar. 2026
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In the mid-twentieth century, the US government experimented on poor Black men in Tuskegee, Alabama, to understand the life-cycle of syphilis; the men were coerced into remaining in their study for decades despite the fact that the disease’s cure, penicillin, had been discovered.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
30 Mar. 2026
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And the folks for whom Live Nation is able to really coerce a lot of their economic opportunities, the venues that are afraid to get sideways with Live Nation.—
Dana Taylor,
USA Today,
27 Mar. 2026
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The escalating tensions came into sharp focus March 27, when animosity between GOP lawmakers in the two chambers of Congress burst dramatically into view.—
Zachary Schermele,
USA Today,
28 Mar. 2026
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That plan ultimately goes awry, with Margot surviving the attack, smartly staged in a way that doesn’t completely ratchet up the violent tension, keeping the audience in an appropriate level of comfort while not compromising the narrative.—
David John Chávez,
Mercury News,
27 Mar. 2026
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But my family also remembers the complexity of that time, stories of intimidation, families caught in the middle, because history is rarely simple.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
26 Mar. 2026
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The bill now requires the NYPD to form a plan for how to address and limit obstruction, intimidation and physical injury.—
Josephine Stratman,
New York Daily News,
26 Mar. 2026
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“Pressure.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pressure. Accessed 31 Mar. 2026.
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