HIGH-PRESSURED Synonyms: 110 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

as in intensive

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verb

past tense of high-pressure

as in marketed

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Adjective

The second cohort members are all to become part of the intensive acceleration phase that’s steered by the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership innovation team, with a concentration on pilot readiness.

— Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 17 Sep. 2026
The inaugural Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival Filmmaker Retreat, a four-day intensive program for filmmakers based in the Mid-South/South, held in partnership with Indie Media Arts South, launching October 10 – 13.

— Matthew Carey, Deadline, 17 Sep. 2026

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Verb

This was partly inspired by the club’s latest investigations into apparent ‘ticket-touting’, when 1,149 fan accounts were banned, and more were threatened with having their season tickets revoked.

— Nick Miller, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2026
Rate Field was financed by the State of Illinois after White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf had threatened to move the team to the Tampa Bay Area in Florida back in 1988.

— Darius Johnson, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of threatened

Adjective

Ukrainian officials are expecting another winter of intense Russian strikes on energy infrastructure, a tactic Moscow has employed each winter of the full-scale invasion in a bid to freeze the country into submission.

— David Brennan, ABC News, 15 Sep. 2026
In his research for both projects, his mood boards filled up with references to periods of intense cultural flowering cut short—Weimar Germany, 1970s Iran, Cuba in the ’50s, and New York City before the AIDS crisis.

— Sean Santiago, Architectural Digest, 15 Sep. 2026

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Verb

As shoppers seek physical stores this upcoming holiday, retailers need to ensure brick-and-mortar stores are well-staffed and neatly merchandised as well as stocked with in-demand inventory.

— Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 6 Aug. 2026
PlusOne will be merchandised within the Wellness by Ulta Beauty areas in stores, alongside other wellness solutions.

— Sharon Edelson, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026

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For decades, Blythe Street gang terrorized Panorama City despite injunctions, beautification projects and millions in investment.

— Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026
Once inside, Ibarra and his friends terrorized the woman and an unidentified person, holding them at gunpoint and knifepoint, per the report.

— Logan Smith, CBS News, 25 Aug. 2026

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Adjective

Highly concentrated sugary drinks can slow gastric emptying, which may delay the delivery of fluids to the intestines where they’re absorbed.

— Sarah Jividen, Verywell Health, 17 Sep. 2026
Making the area more concentrated — whether that means moving all team units indoors (as the organizers initially wanted) or changing the paddock’s layout — could create a better atmosphere next year.

— Luke Smith, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of concentrated

Verb

After four hurricanes struck Florida in 2004, Maines noticed the federal government had distributed millions of dollars in disaster assistance in Miami-Dade County, even though the county had barely been touched by the storms.

— Sally Kestin, Sun Sentinel, 11 Sep. 2026
Posters started showing up around town, distributed by graphic artist Milton Glaser‘s students at the School of Visual Arts.

— Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 11 Sep. 2026

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