high-pressure
Example Sentences
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This sort of high-pressure environment usually results in increased levels of stress and anxiety.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026
From high-pressure extractors to high-quality filters, there are more tools than ever before to protect the lungs of people working with wood.
From BBC • May 11, 2026
By 2013, the Bureau of Street Lighting had swapped more than half of the city’s 220,000 high-pressure sodium lamps with LED bulbs, and the department has systematically converted the rest in the years since.
From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2026
Authorized repayment programs don’t use high-pressure tactics, experts say.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 30, 2026
News of Savery’s engine reached the landgrave of Hesse, and Papin was put to work devising a high-pressure steam pump.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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