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pressure cooker
noun as in heavy pot with airtight lid
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Like a pressure cooker, it is designed to hold together even as extreme amounts of steam build up inside it.
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This win is an important hurdle to overcome, one which should serve them well with the pressure cooker turning up a notch from now on.
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The trend is the product of a variety of forces that turn the NFL’s worst teams into pressure cookers.
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Said LaPoma, “We knew it was important then, but it didn’t seem to be the wild pressure cooker situation it is now.”
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Now, they are about to enter the pressure cooker again.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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