press
Example Sentences
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To test this idea, the researchers monitored brain activity in mice while the animals pressed a weighted lever.
From Science Daily
A press release promoting the story went out Friday.
From Los Angeles Times
"Our duty is to present the facts, but more importantly, to press upon them that it is imperative for them to secure peace," he said last week.
From BBC
Prof Sullivan told the BBC it was like a "zombie apocalypse" as some protesters pressed up against the window with placards and loudhailers.
From BBC
Justice Clarence Thomas famously peeled a 15-cent price sticker off a cigar package and pressed it onto the frame holding his Yale Law degree.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
