pressures

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S&P Global’s composite purchasing managers index for May, which gauges manufacturing and services sector activity, showed that cost pressures intensified again.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

“Technical pressures are evident,” said Lawrence Gillum, chief fixed income strategist at LPL Financial.

From Barron's • Jun. 2, 2026

NAHT's Graham Gault said "school leaders have yet to experience any meaningful reduction in the huge pressures they face," while the NEU's Pauline Buchanan said "there has been insufficient progress on core matters".

From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026

They are constructed products governed by rules, committees, methodologies, assumptions and increasingly competitive business pressures.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 2, 2026

Occasionally, bands wandered outside their turf and explored new lands, whether due to natural calamities, violent conflicts, demographic pressures or the initiative of a charismatic leader.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari