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pressure cooker

NOUN
heavy pot with airtight lid
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"It becomes a kind of pressure cooker," she explains.

From BBC • May 16, 2026

Tax preparation is a seasonal business — and a hectic pressure cooker.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 13, 2026

Human beings weren’t meant to create art in this particular kind of pressure cooker.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 17, 2025

Said LaPoma, “We knew it was important then, but it didn’t seem to be the wild pressure cooker situation it is now.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 8, 2025

The pressure cooker had a whistle-shaped thing on the top.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood




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