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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
Suhauna Hussain, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2024
Demonstrators in both camps have vowed to keep up the pressure as the Constitutional Court considers Yoon’s fate.
—Jason Ma, Fortune Asia, 16 Dec. 2024
Kalle Heikkinen,
william Kerr,
mika Malin,
panu Routila,
joel Ryynänen, Harvard Business Review, 12 Dec. 2024
Heritage Action, the advocacy arm of the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation, is working to pressure GOP senators from nine states to support President-elect Trump’s Cabinet picks.
—Lauren Irwin, The Hill, 11 Dec. 2024
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Noun
For years, Amazon has faced accusations that the pressure the company puts on its warehouse workers to work more quickly has led to higher rates of injuries.
—Suhauna Hussain, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2024
Demonstrators in both camps have vowed to keep up the pressure as the Constitutional Court considers Yoon’s fate.
—Jason Ma, Fortune Asia, 16 Dec. 2024
Verb
Increasingly, companies are being pressured to decouple from regions that customers, employees, politicians, advocacy groups, and even leaders deem politically fraught.
—Kalle Heikkinen,
william Kerr,
mika Malin,
panu Routila,
joel Ryynänen, Harvard Business Review, 12 Dec. 2024
Heritage Action, the advocacy arm of the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation, is working to pressure GOP senators from nine states to support President-elect Trump’s Cabinet picks.
—Lauren Irwin, The Hill, 11 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pressure
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Lack of money is an underlying stress that the film leaves unexpressed and unexplored.Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2024
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Instead, focus on things like what's been bothering you in the past week, stress about an upcoming event, or a work incident that rubbed you the wrong way.Perri Ormont Blumberg, TIME, 13 Dec. 2024
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The issues extend beyond mere resource constraints: • Runaway Costs: Training and deploying advanced AI models can cost tens of millions of dollars per model, with operational expenses compounding as model usage scales.Aparna Prabhakar, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
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In the tech industry, however, productivity has no such constraints, especially at large companies.Caroline Petrow-Cohen, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2024
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Posey wasn’t sufficiently deterred by the fact that signing Adames, who had been extended a qualifying offer by the Brewers, will force the Giants to sacrifice their second- and fifth-round picks along with $1 million in international bonus money from their 2026 pool.Andrew Baggarly, The Athletic, 8 Dec. 2024
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Meanwhile, in 1739 Scotland, Roger (Richard Rankin) and Buck (Diarmaid Murtagh) track down the tinker who lost a bet and was forced to part with Roger’s father’s WWI identification tags.Lincee Ray, EW.com, 7 Dec. 2024
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This shift could alleviate financial strain and foster a deeper connection between institutions and their audiences, ensuring museums remain accessible, adaptable and community-centered.Michele Smith, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
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Some experts who spoke to ABC News attributed the anti-corporate outcry to a host of overlapping trends: widening wealth inequality and a perception of an economy rigged against everyday people, blistering rhetoric supercharged by social media and a populist strain of politics that faults elites.Max Zahn, ABC News, 12 Dec. 2024
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These obsessions lead you to do repetitive behaviors, also called compulsions.Cara Lynn Shultz, People.com, 6 Dec. 2024
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These obsessions and compulsions can vary from person to person, Reinmann says.Alyssa Goldberg, USA TODAY, 25 Nov. 2024
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Wynant’s character is coerced into releasing a man imprisoned in a monastery who turns out to be the devil.Nick Thomas, Hartford Courant, 5 Nov. 2024
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Vance also suggested that wealthy parents might go so far as to coerce their children to undergo gender surgeries to get into better colleges and universities.Karissa Waddick, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2024
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Or, pair it with another DIY Christmas garland or an evergreen garland, and hang them on your banister, mantle, or in a door frame using a tension rod for a full and playful look.Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Dec. 2024
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Macron hosted Trump for a White House state dinner in 2018, but tensions emerged the following year over Macron's comments about NATO's status.Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 7 Dec. 2024
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The Cabinet was then compelled to revoke the martial law before dawn on Dec. 4, ending Yoon's six hour long military rule.Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
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During the 1970s, in East Texas, Bird, who lives in Austin, was compelled to photograph Black rodeos put on to celebrate Juneteenth, which was not yet nationally celebrated.Donny Bajohr, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Dec. 2024
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“Pressure.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pressure. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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