high-pressure
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High-pressure tactics, official-sounding messages and other tricks are potentially bedeviling taxpayers.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026
High-pressure sales tactics or not, the law favors the company in these situations, says Jeffrey Rachlinski, a professor at Cornell Law School.
From Science Magazine • Sep. 13, 2023
High-pressure systems feature sinking air, which compresses and becomes warmer.
From Scientific American • Jun. 27, 2023
High-pressure ridges and continental mountain ranges are helping protect the Golden State from the dangerous deep freeze.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 25, 2022
High-pressure engines were whistling, impatient to be off.
From The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Jordan, Charlotte Brewster
