pressures

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This might ease inflationary pressures and soothe investor worries over central banks’ rate increases that typically reduce the non-interest-bearing appeal of the precious metal.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

But he added that the broadcaster faces "very real challenges", and he must now decide how to make £500m cuts to tackle what the BBC has described as "significant financial pressures".

From BBC • May 18, 2026

While investors have largely treated the latest energy-driven inflation pressures as temporary, the buffers that had helped absorb the shock from lost oil supply may be fading, Evercore’s Altman said.

From MarketWatch • May 18, 2026

First, walking upright freed the hands from locomotion, creating new pressures that favored more specialized and asymmetric hand use.

From Science Daily • May 18, 2026

They know that the pressures at the center of the Earth are sufficiently high–something over three million times those found at the surface–to turn any rock there solid.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson