duress
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When lens flares continually beam right at the screen, the whole movie feels like enlightenment under duress.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026
They rise when Americans feel secure enough financially, and soften when families are under duress.
From MarketWatch • May 16, 2026
Under duress, the trees would drop all their fruit on the ground prematurely.
From Slate • Apr. 20, 2026
Filled with my furniture, with paintings and posters leaning against its corrugated metal walls, it looked like the house in microcosm, as if I had moved, under duress, to a shipping container.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026
My biology textbook said that dogs can smell fear because of a chemical secreted by human glands in a state of duress, the same chemical a dog’s prey secretes.
From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth
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