stressed
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Rowbottom’s willingness to move toward culturally uncomfortable material is central to her work, he stressed, treating so-called lowbrow or feminine cultural obsessions not as guilty pleasures, but as material worthy of literary merit.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2026
He has also denied that any public funds from the UK Parliament were involved in the embezzlement, and stressed that the prosecution service acts independently of government.
From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026
Namely, that the SpaceX-Anthropic deal suggested his AI ambitions were scaling back—even as the filing stressed it was leasing unneeded computing capacity.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026
Despite the promising findings, the researchers stressed that the results should be interpreted cautiously.
From Science Daily • May 31, 2026
“I’m not going to sugarcoat it. If his heart is stressed, he could die,” the doctor said.
From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm
Vocabulary lists containing stressed
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STAAR English II: Elements of Literature 2
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