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high-pressured

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verb

past tense of high-pressure

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for high-pressured
Adjective
  • Over the next three days, Stafford and Hanton will lead you through an intensive, interactive bushcraft school.
    Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 5 Oct. 2025
  • In India, the government has begun pushing to decarbonize the iron and steel sector, one of the world’s most emissions-intensive industries, driven as much by resource and pollution pressures as by diplomacy.
    Felicia Jackson, Forbes.com, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The Peloton Pro Series includes commercial versions of its Bike+, Tread+ and Row+ and will be marketed to places that have small gyms, like hotels, apartment buildings, corporate wellness centers and country clubs.
    Gabrielle Fonrouge, CNBC, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The show will be distributed, marketed, and monetized through the Cumulus Podcast Network under its Westwood One portfolio.
    Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Kimmel was benched for three nights by ABC after Brendan Carr, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, threatened to punish the network over comments the host made in a monologue.
    Michael Schneider, Variety, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Since then, dozens of tariffs have been threatened, implemented, delayed and changed, ushering in an environment of economic uncertainty for business owners who are unsure of what to expect next.
    Laura L. Davis, Nashville Tennessean, 2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • During periods of intense rainfall, the risk of flooding increases, particularly in low-lying and flood-prone areas.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Safdie perceptively locates the protagonist’s troubling inner contradictions—the atavistic fury that drives him to compete and the intense self-control that competition demands—but dramatizes such outer crises as opioid addiction and conflict with his girlfriend (Emily Blunt) only schematically.
    Vince Aletti, New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • So for the Rams to neutralize the Philadelphia Eagles’ Saquon Barkley, the running back that so terrorized them in 2024, last weekend was a statement, even if it was overshadowed by the team’s second-half collapse.
    Adam Grosbard, Oc Register, 28 Sep. 2025
  • The second film, in theaters now via Lionsgate, finds the actor much more in control after being terrorized by the mysterious title baddies in the first film, a reimagining of the 2008 hit.
    William Earl, Variety, 26 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Blood becomes more concentrated, the heart must pump harder, and the brain feels the strain — fatigue, fuzzy thinking, slower reaction time.
    Dr. Jamin Brahmbhatt, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Pulling shots of espresso involves a flash method of expressing steam through grounds for a highly concentrated form of coffee.
    Lyndsay C. Green, Freep.com, 28 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • If products are merchandised poorly, no one will want to purchase it and money will not circle back to fisheries and the Alaskan economy could suffer.
    Andrew Watman, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • No matter how they're merchandised, take notice of these home staples.
    Jennifer Prince, Southern Living, 17 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • These teen boys were blackmailed online.
    Nancy Cutler, USA Today, 20 Sep. 2025
  • But in July, the FBI and DOJ released a joint memo stating there was no Epstein client list and no credible evidence that Epstein blackmailed prominent individuals.
    Julie K. Brown Miami Herald, Arkansas Online, 7 Sep. 2025
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“High-pressured.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/high-pressured. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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