stress
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Some called for more support with their communications skills and raised concerns about stress management and personal finances.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
The pain caused by a stress fracture in her back eventually subsided, but the 24-year-old Briton still had a long road to full recovery, which needed to be navigated with patience and hard work.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
Startups are using gene editing and sensors to make plants emit optical signals or change colors when they are under stress from pests or disease.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
Signs of stress in credit markets have begun to emerge, especially among neocloud companies fighting to keep pace in the AI race.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
Even after all the testing, they had no idea how a human would handle the stress of space flight, so they’d rigged everything to work automatically.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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What comes after “wine moms”: When Susannah Bradley was raising her young children, wine was many mom’s vice of choice to help them cope with the stresses of parenting.
From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2026
Vieira said feeling scared about monsters is a "fun escape" from the stresses of her everyday life as an A&E doctor.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
Kiké Hernández, the Dodgers’ Mr. October, says L.A. is the team to beat in the MLB playoffs, but stresses the importance of “taking care of business.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
It’s a dazzling selection that stresses the variety of Pollock’s paintings from this brief period, their common technique notwithstanding.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
The curriculum at Miss Preston's stresses loyalty, and I have to say that my dedication to my fellow students is incomparable.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
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Foma stressed that the GUR suggests the targets to be surveilled, but that he and his team check for themselves that these individuals should be considered military criminals.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
“We were really stressed at that point, and, to head that off, we started restricting the major,” Atul Prakash, chair of computer science and engineering at Michigan, told MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
The people I’ve talked to at Netflix stressed this is not AI-related.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
Padilla stressed that the new Senate observers would have no role in administering elections or handling ballots.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
My mind stressed over how to present the article to my parents.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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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
"This is not some kind of panacea," he said, stressing that the turrets were part of "an integrated air defence system that provides engagement of these targets at different tiers".
From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026
Devon and Cornwall Police said partner agencies continued "to assess the unexploded ordnance", stressing work was "ongoing to determine the safest and most appropriate course of action".
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
In speaking they rolled their “r’s” in Continental style, pronouncing “party” as “parrrtee,” stressing the last syllable, having picked up the habit from white Communists.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
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