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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
  • Higgins pointed out that land-intensive projects, like the Miami Freedom Park soccer stadium project, could have included housing on the premises.
    Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Pakistan and Afghanistan have agreed to an immediate ceasefire following intensive peace negotiations in Doha, Qatar, according to Reuters reporting on an announcement made by Qatar's foreign ministry early Sunday.
    Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Less creditworthy borrowers did not benefit; some even saw new higher rates than had been previously marketed to them.
    Susan Tompor, Freep.com, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The reason people who are pregnant have been excluded from drug trials starts with thalidomide, a drug marketed as a sleep aid that led to birth defects in 8,000 to 10,000 children worldwide.
    Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 23 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • More than two years after the fatal shooting, Lorincz maintained her side of the story that the kids had trespassed on her property and threatened her life.
    Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025
  • But this season remains threatened by law-breaking.
    Troy Renck, Denver Post, 23 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Thus, current fears reinforce a pre-existing localism, and infuse it with new and intense emotions.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 18 Oct. 2025
  • After at least half a decade of acute concern about the way that platforms such as Instagram may affect young people, as well as intense debate about how best to keep kids safe online, Meta has arrived at a label that was invented in the 1980s because parents were upset by movies such as Gremlins.
    Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Many local critics say instead innocent people are being left terrorized.
    Michael Loria, USA Today, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The Monster of Florence is a name coined by Mario Spezi, a former crime reporter for Italy's La Nazione, for a serial killer that terrorized the countryside outside Florence, Italy, between 1968 and 1985.
    Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 22 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Oranges contain a significantly high amount of vitamin C and provide concentrated nutrients that help meet multiple daily requirements in one piece of fruit.
    Cristina Mutchler, Verywell Health, 20 Oct. 2025
  • They are found all over the state with the most concentrated population in the Hill Country region.
    Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • They are not merchandised with products for shopping and are situated where customers live or work.
    David Moin, Footwear News, 6 Oct. 2025
  • 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
Verb
  • The bill was inspired by a Wisconsin teen who died by suicide after being blackmailed.
    Molly Beck, jsonline.com, 14 Oct. 2025
  • These teen boys were blackmailed online.
    Nancy Cutler, USA Today, 20 Sep. 2025
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“High-pressured.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/high-pressured. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.

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