pressure cooker

Example Sentences

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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

Wales have spent the week together in Nice away from the pressure cooker back home but they know what awaits inside Stadio Olimpico.

From BBC • Feb. 7, 2025

She peered suspiciously at the stove, knocked on the pressure cooker, tapped the pots with her fingers.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie