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stress
noun as in emphasis
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accent, accentuation, beat, force, import, importance, significance, urgency
noun as in physical or mental pressure
Strongest matches
agony, anxiety, burden, crunch, fear, hardship, hassle, heat, intensity, nervousness, strain, tension, trauma, worry
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affliction, alarm, albatross, apprehensiveness, clutch, disquiet, disquietude, distention, draw, dread, expectancy, extension, fearfulness, ferment, flutter, force, impatience, misgiving, mistrust, oppression, passion, protraction, pull, restlessness, spring, stretch, tautness, tenseness, tensity, tightness, traction, trepidation, trial, urgency
Weak matches
verb as in accentuate, emphasize
Example Sentences
The statement added that police were aware there had been a recent focus on the proscription of Palestine Action and stressed that decision had been taken by the UK government.
It could also put stress on the country's relationship with a key ally.
It's also important to bear in mind that the OBR stresses the economic and fiscal costs to the UK from the UK and the world not reaching net zero.
What’s more, they’re intimately knowledgeable of history, able to yank references from the past and stress their pertinence to our present.
Her husband has died from the stress of trying to keep their rancho, her sons live in hardship and her daughter is married to a white man.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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