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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
Ganesh Rao, CNBC, 14 July 2025
Keeping an eye on the Gulf The National Hurricane Center has identified an area of low atmospheric pressure that’s expected to move west across Florida and into the Gulf of Mexico in the coming days.
—Mary Wasson, Austin American Statesman, 14 July 2025
Sacbee.com, 10 July 2025
The column was also updated to show that Pugliese did not pressure Weinberg to drop his bid for a leadership role.
—Megan Schrader, Denver Post, 9 July 2025
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Noun
This downturn would likely be disinflationary, putting further pressure on the European Central Bank to lower rates, according to the team led by Ardagna.
—Ganesh Rao, CNBC, 14 July 2025
Keeping an eye on the Gulf The National Hurricane Center has identified an area of low atmospheric pressure that’s expected to move west across Florida and into the Gulf of Mexico in the coming days.
—Mary Wasson, Austin American Statesman, 14 July 2025
Verb
The department store closed this spring as Macy’s — faced with customers’ growing indifference to brick-and-mortar retail and pressured by activist investors to offload real estate — shut down dozens of locations across the country.
—Sacbee.com, 10 July 2025
The column was also updated to show that Pugliese did not pressure Weinberg to drop his bid for a leadership role.
—Megan Schrader, Denver Post, 9 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pressure
Noun
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The three-, five- and seven-day programs are built around each guest’s hormonal stage and focus on nutrition, sleep, stress, movement and recovery.—
Forbes.com,
Forbes.com,
11 July 2025
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All of us will feel the economic ripple when emergency rooms are inundated, hospitals and nursing homes close under the stress, and pink slips get handed out to health care workers.—
Donna Vickroy,
Chicago Tribune,
11 July 2025
Noun
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Davis is a magnetic front man, and the Roadhouse Band is an intoxicatingly raucous live outfit, but the constraints of the setup suited his new material, which is suffused with listlessness and yearning, dark jokes and wordy disquisitions on desire.—
Amanda Petrusich,
New Yorker,
14 July 2025
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The graphic novel format gave him the freedom to imagine without limitation—unbound by the logistical constraints of filmmaking.—
Okla Jones,
Essence,
14 July 2025
Verb
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Blurry Vision High sugar levels force the body to pull fluid from your tissues, including the lenses of your eyes.—
Barbie Cervoni,
Verywell Health,
15 July 2025
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Glaser told Variety that her shift in wardrobe allowed viewers to see that she’s taken control of her life, no longer following the gaudy colors and costumes her mother forced upon her in previous seasons.—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
15 July 2025
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Wallner took off on the play and drew a throw to second from Cubs catcher Reese McGuire, which allowed Lewis, who has missed 49 games over two stints on the injured list because of a left hamstring strain, to race home and easily score.—
Dan Hayes,
New York Times,
10 July 2025
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The more resistant strains of gram-negative bacteria, such as E. coli and Salmonella, did not succumb to any of the natural treatments.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
9 July 2025
Noun
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Harboring a tragedy from her past, Johansson smooths Zora's rough edges with a compulsion to keep everyone protected, even at the expense of her own safety.—
Billie Melissa,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 June 2025
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But when care becomes compulsion, and when support turns into self-sacrifice, the relationship begins to lose balance.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
7 June 2025
Verb
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Witnesses testified about whether the original detective and prosecutor in his case had coerced them into testifying against Bell at his 1995 trial.—
The Marshall Project,
The Orlando Sentinel,
15 July 2025
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The school board responded that the materials did no more than expose the children to new ideas, and that in any case nobody was being coerced.—
Stephen L. Carter,
Mercury News,
8 July 2025
Noun
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The move to resume sales of the H20 chips comes amid easing tensions between Washington and Beijing, with China relaxing controls on rare earth exports and the United States allowing chip design software services to resume in China.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
15 July 2025
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But the dustup over the building renovation is just a superficial sign of the underlying tension between the administration and the central bank.—
Scott Horsley,
NPR,
14 July 2025
Verb
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So she still feels compelled to speak up for these fellow children of God.—
Scott Maxwell,
The Orlando Sentinel,
11 July 2025
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That compels people to shell out somewhere between $2,500 and $3,000 for courtside seats for a summer league game, as people did Thursday.—
David Aldridge,
New York Times,
11 July 2025
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“Pressure.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pressure. Accessed 23 Jul. 2025.
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