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pressing
adjective as in important; urgent
Example Sentences
Earlier this year, Josephine joined delegations of unionized California healthcare workers who traveled to Washington with the aim of pressing lawmakers to oppose spending cuts.
Within seconds they surround his car, at the same time pressing protesters back as they begin to lob tear gas canisters.
While some of that language must be required by an exhausted legal team behind the scenes, the long-running satirical cartoon is known for pressing hot-button topics and rapidly churning out searing parodies.
Inside the MiG‑21 cockpit, pilots say, there was little comfort - just a single seat and the sky pressing in all around.
The pressing relevance of the artist’s work for our present fraught era is irrefutable — not least when the dizzying transformation from analog to digital culture is harnessed to productive ends.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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