stressful
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Football management is stressful, tiring and often all-consuming.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
She’ll have to do checkups every three months and it’s so stressful and takes so much out of you.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
The vast majority of accused parents will be vindicated, but only after a stressful, unjustified process.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026
In healthy brains, the LC becomes active during stressful situations and then returns to normal once the stress has passed.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 3, 2026
It would be as if, when everything started going wrong, when it started getting stressful, we could have just gone backward.
From "The Thing About Jellyfish" by Ali Benjamin
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