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- with a full-time job and her college courses, the young woman is under a lot of stress right now
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- the company's orientation program places considerable stress on workplace safety
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- the restaurant manager has a tendency to stress about every little thing that goes wrong
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- his bad performance only stressed what I'd been saying all along
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- the doctor stressed the importance of exercise
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“Stress.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stress. Accessed 28 Sep. 2021.
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