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[stres] / strɛs /






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Even though she was on her way to becoming a physician herself, and even though she was exhausted and stressed, and stress is a possible agitator for shingles, her doctors didn’t immediately find a diagnosis.

From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2026

People I spoke with lamented a childhood filled with academic stress: cram school tutoring, studying well into the night and China’s make-or-break gaokao university entrance examination.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

Ranasingha says the stress is impacting her health.

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026

The explanation lies in a surprising change in how the metals respond to stress.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

He had left the shelter around noon, unable to take the stress of simply waiting alone.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone

"My husband stresses that this is a time for unity, not for looking for people to blame," she said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

Considered alongside an excellent lineup of contemporaries, “You Can See Everything” stresses that the genre isn’t about uncovering truths, but playing with our subjective relationship to them.

From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026

Chandrasekaran stresses that it’s just the world he and his wife live in now and that the contributions have less to do with him than they do with Raman’s vision of Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

It is welcome, he says, that the government is now giving vehicle thefts more attention, but he stresses that current police resources will not meaningfully reduce the number of crimes.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

Since the areas of the cross sections of the supporting wires are equal, the stresses in the wire, force divided by cross-sectional area, vary as the lengths of the wires.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

Even though she was on her way to becoming a physician herself, and even though she was exhausted and stressed, and stress is a possible agitator for shingles, her doctors didn’t immediately find a diagnosis.

From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2026

Royal sources have stressed that the decisions around making an apology are a matter for government, not the Palace.

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026

"We focus on the medical need," he stressed.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

Zelensky said that was fine, but stressed that the military was free to hit refineries again if it chose to, the person said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

Despite our recent tragedies, he seemed less stressed about this new development than I was.

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline

French President Emmanuel Macron reacted with outrage to the attack, stressing the need for "far more than a localised ceasefire" like the one in Oleshky.

From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026

Tesla is also stressing its margins through massive spending on A.I., so the company doesn’t look like the EV juggernaut it once was.

From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026

Officials at the World Petroleum Congress on Monday echoed his message, with many stressing that disrupting Saudi energy supplies would have consequences beyond its borders.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

He instructed the Defense Department to stop looking for perfection in its tech, and buy off-the-shelf products that are good enough, stressing the urgency of modernizing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

She loved the way he pronounced Odenigbo’s name, stressing it so earnestly.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie


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