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high-pressure

[hahy-presh-er] / ˈhaɪˈprɛʃ ər /






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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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