pressure cooker

Example Sentences

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He said schools had become "a pressure cooker", adding the survey of its members "paints a picture of a system under severe strain".

From BBC • Apr. 30, 2026

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

From MarketWatch • Mar. 13, 2026

Shale drillers have turned the biggest oil field in the U.S. into a pressure cooker that is literally bursting at the seams.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025

Add in the pressure cooker of those final-stage matches and the lopsided talent in the England squad, and it becomes harder to believe Tuchel can infuse international management with Premier League intensity.

From BBC • Mar. 21, 2025

Mr. Chris had to check on them, he said, before they could be sent into town to the restaurant man who canned them with a pressure cooker.

From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen