pressure cooker
Example Sentences
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The piñas must get to a pressure cooker within 24 hours, where the sugars can be extracted.
From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026
"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
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 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
