pressure cooker

Example Sentences

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

From MarketWatch • Mar. 13, 2026

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.

From BBC • Oct. 19, 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 White Lotus,” which was filmed its first season on location at the Four Seasons in Maui, somehow made an exclusive resort seem like a toxic pressure cooker.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2025

The women were cooking and I could smell onions frying already, could hear the phht-phht of a pressure cooker, music, laughter.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini