pressing
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“It is the most pressing emerging illness on the island right now,” Claire Seguin, president of the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital, told me.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
Serbia's long-time populist President Aleksandar Vucic resigned Sunday to run for prime minister in October snap elections after nearly two years of student-led protests that had been pressing for just such a poll.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
Monday is for bench pressing and Tuesday is squats, but they reserve biceps and shoulders for the end of the week.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Alawieh, one of the people who spent the 2024 convention pressing Democrats for a Palestinian speaker, recently won the Democratic nomination for a Michigan state Senate seat.
From Slate ● Sep. 25, 2026
“You,” he says slowly, pointedly, pressing the word deep into my skin.
From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day
The “Obsession” score has already blown through a couple vinyl pressings, proving that young fans want to revisit the music on its own terms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
More important, she had recorded exclusively for the early Paramount label, notorious for its poor recording quality and worse shellac pressings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
When Swift drops an album, there are upward of five different vinyl pressings, all in their own color variant, with edition-specific bonus tracks and other exclusives—and all costing $30-plus each.
From Slate ● Jun. 19, 2024
The first impression copy is one of only 1,500 original pressings of the fantasy novel - that went on to spawn Tolkien's universe of Middle-Earth .
From BBC ● May 20, 2024
About the pressings he'd made since he was little, and the cuttings he collected.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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