pressure
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“All these things still put a lot of pressure on higher education—but listen, you take it where you can,” she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
Keeping calm under pressure comes with the job description, but there's a sense it's what's expected from fans and team-mates.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
Skepticism about returns on investment on the massive spending on AI by some of the world’s largest tech companies is sparking another “tech wreck,” as stocks associated with the AI build-out were coming under pressure.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026
"A law that was justified as protecting children's welfare is putting precisely those children under pressure at school," the group said in a statement.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
The pressure builds in my chest, my throat, my nose, behind my eyes.
From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko
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Bonds continued to rally even after another inflation report showed price pressures picked up last month by an even greater degree than economists had expected.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026
Goldman Sachs economists estimate AI pressures have boosted the core personal-consumption-expenditures inflation rate by 0.45 percentage point, of which half is due to mismeasurement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
Erin Keating, Executive Analyst, Cox Automotive, says, “Affordability pressures are pushing more buyers toward lower-priced vehicles and segments, which tempers the industrywide number even as prices for individual vehicles rise.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
"The US is also seeing substantial increases in airline fares," he said, adding that this will likely contribute to additional price pressures.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
There are other pressures as well, Wilson said.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
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Permits for nonresidential buildings fell 0.6% to C$5.1 billion, pressured lower by plans for commercial construction, the agency said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
The Greek government said it had "never" been threatened or pressured, and the foreign ministry said it was "unnecessary" to summon Guilfoyle on the issue.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
Despite being pressured nearly 70 times in four games, the seventh-year signal-caller remains supportive of his offensive line, especially the younger players.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026
He recently pressured European allies to further tap their oil reserves.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
This environment gives us more material resources and longer lives than those enjoyed by any previous generation, but it often makes us feel alienated, depressed and pressured.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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Norris had been pressuring Piastri for some laps before the Australian also began to close in on Leclerc, and Antonelli, struggling with oversteer in the early laps, picked up the pace.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
Yet many others have been locked out of prosperity, and entrenched inflation is pressuring even those with six-figure salaries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
In 2021, it enacted a so-called news media bargaining code aimed at pressuring Meta and Google into commercial deals with publishers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
The margin that oil refiners demand for producing gasoline, heating oil and diesel has been rising to historic highs, pressuring for one prices of petroleum products used by U.S. consumers.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026
In England, foreign secretary Anthony Eden said he “deeply regretted” the news, and then set about pressuring the French not to overreact.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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