stress
Example Sentences
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"There have been cases where horses had miscarriages from stress," the horse farm worker Oleksandr Konyakhin told AFP.
From Barron's
The Lakers built a 12-point lead in the fourth, but the Jazz continued to put stress on the Los Angeles defense, getting within four points late in the game.
From Los Angeles Times
"It allows us to monitor pathogens in live whales without stress or harm, providing critical insights into diseases in rapidly changing Arctic ecosystems," he said.
From BBC
The owners of the Cairngorm Reindeer Herd reject claims these Christmas events cause their animals stress.
From BBC
As a result, it said it would maintain the domestic-stability buffer—the store of capital that banks must have on hand to be able to absorb losses and continue lending during times of stress—at 3.5% of risk-weighted assets.
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