high-pressure
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High-pressure tactics, official-sounding messages and other tricks are potentially bedeviling taxpayers.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026
High-pressure sales tactics or not, the law favors the company in these situations, says Jeffrey Rachlinski, a professor at Cornell Law School.
From Science Magazine • Sep. 13, 2023
High-pressure systems feature sinking air, which compresses and becomes warmer.
From Scientific American • Jun. 27, 2023
High-pressure pumps inject the purified water into the ground along the coastline, stretching roughly from El Segundo to the Palos Verdes Peninsula.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 11, 2021
High-pressure direct current is not easily generated, since the sparking at the collecting brushes as they pass over the commutator segments gives trouble.
From How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Williams, Archibald
