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pressure cooker

noun as in heavy pot with airtight lid

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Now, they are about to enter the pressure cooker again.

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This process is known as pyrolysis and takes place in facilities akin to homemade pressure cookers, often in rural backwaters.

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The freezing of prevention efforts, economic uncertainty and polarizing rhetoric in the run-up to the midterm elections create “a pressure cooker,” Braniff said.

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The biggest non-technical reason is the Preakness is fun, an experience trainers and owners enjoy rather than the price-gouging pressure cooker that is Louisville on Derby week.

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The pyrolysis plants - often in rural backwaters - are akin to homemade pressure cookers and produce dangerous gasses and chemicals.

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