pressing on
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Not that restaurant owners are becoming less generous, but that the economic forces pressing on them increasingly require them to show their work.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026
Mild weather has been a factor pressing on natural gas futures today, with electrical power demand seen as limited.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
"I don't think this will lead to any changes on the front lines," he told reporters, adding that Moscow intends to continue pressing on with its almost four-and-a-half-year offensive.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
The context was the crisis in the eurozone and the role he was pressing on a reluctant Germany was an economic, not a military one.
From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2026
What was pinning him down, pressing on him with so much weight that he could not move?
From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin
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