PRESSURES Synonyms: 89 Similar and Opposite Words

pressures 1 of 2

noun

plural of pressure

as in stresses

the burden on one's emotional or mental well-being created by demands on one's time a business executive who works well under pressure

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the use of power to impose one's will on another pressure from their peers can often cause teens to do things that they normally wouldn't consider

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verb

present tense third-person singular of pressure

as in forces

to cause (a person) to give in to pressure his father pressured him to go out for the swim team

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Recent Examples of pressures

Noun

Separating students from those pressures for several hours could encourage face-to-face conversation and give overwhelmed teenagers a genuine break. — Kavin Bendre, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2026 It’s closely watched for evidence of whether underlying price pressures are easing amid supply shocks that can drive the headline Consumer Price Index number higher. — Rachel Barber, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2026 Price pressures persist Wednesday’s report also showed that some underlying price pressures continue to simmer. — Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 12 Aug. 2026 After months of stubborn price growth, the latest inflation report offered another sign that some of those pressures may be easing. — Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2026 Analysts anticipate a quarter-point hike, driven by persistent inflationary pressures rather than solely the latest monthly data. — Bill Conerly, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026 Since May, the government has partially passed on the fuel price increases to the public, adding to cost pressures. — Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 5 Aug. 2026 Some analysts have noted that going private could potentially grant EA more freedom in developing and distributing future games outside pressures of the public market. — ABC News, 5 Aug. 2026 While mental health professionals offered strategies for supporting young athletes, organizers also wanted attendees to hear from those who have navigated those pressures firsthand. — Timothy Dashiell, Baltimore Sun, 5 Aug. 2026

Verb

Dylan Newsome Being the star athlete, Dylan has a complicated relationship with football because his father pressures him to win. — Lisa Stardust, PEOPLE, 6 Aug. 2026 The government has offered cash incentives to those willing to leave and pressures others to give up legal efforts by holding them in detention. — Cindy Carcamo, Christian Science Monitor, 22 July 2026 If a company pressures you into signing a contract before evaluating other options, that’s a red flag. — Faith Wakefield, USA Today, 3 July 2026 An activist often pressures a board to focus more on costs, assets, and capital allocation. — Jim Osman, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026 Allocation system pressures dealers. — Byron Hurd, The Drive, 18 June 2026 The subpoena effectively pressures the state’s three professional football teams — Jacksonville Jaguars, Miami Dolphins, and Tampa Bay Buccaneers — not to apply the league’s diversity hiring practices for top jobs. — David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 13 May 2026 This then pressures the Federal Reserve to finance the debt through monetary expansion, which causes inflation and drives up interest rates. — Lucas Robinson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2026 If someone pressures you to send money immediately, treat it as a warning sign. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 20 Apr. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for pressures

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These thermal gradients generate stresses that may crack or spall – chip or flake off – the outer surface, but the heat often does not penetrate deeply enough to compromise the structural core.

— Giorgia Giardina, The Conversation, 13 Aug. 2026
The book includes a glossary and stresses that collecting can start affordably, demystifying the process and encouraging wealth building through art.

— Richard Fowler, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of stresses

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Enterprise Decision Computing turns a business decision – its possible actions, objectives, constraints, uncertainty, interdependencies, and economic consequences – into a computable enterprise object that can be solved and optimized as a whole.

— Carsten Polenz, Fortune, 13 Aug. 2026
Which is to say quality constraints on what Paramount could conceivably dump into theaters are totally lacking.

— Chris Lee, Vulture, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of constraints

Verb

Users already use it to write profiles and draft messages, Sharabi said, which forces dating companies to decide how much of it belongs inside their products.

— Tatiana Sataua, Fortune, 14 Aug. 2026
Nissan has engineered a software algorithm that artificially forces the engine's sound and RPMs to rise in perfect, linear lockstep with the car’s physical road speed.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of forces

Noun

Weeks of Iranian drone and missile attacks on the UAE earlier this year, the vast majority of which were intercepted, sparked tensions among locals and hammered the country's tourism and aviation industry.

— Jenni Reid,Emma Graham, CNBC, 19 Aug. 2026
Wednesday, would have escalated tensions between the United States and its northern neighbor, a key trading partner.

— Rachel Lerman, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of tensions

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The real question is whether Pennsylvania and cities like Pittsburgh want skill games and other gambling opportunities to be widespread and unavoidable for people who struggle with compulsions to gamble.

— Jonathan Caulkins, The Conversation, 17 July 2026
These obsessions lead you to do repetitive behaviors, also called compulsions.

— Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 29 June 2026

Definition of compulsions

Verb

Frank’s ruling keeps the proposal to raise the homestead exemption up to $250,000 for Florida property owners on the ballot, but compels Attorney General James Uthmeier to rewrite parts of the plan.

— Romy Ellenbogen Herald, Miami Herald, 4 Aug. 2026
The competitive pressure to achieve maximal adoption compels a convergence toward openness.

— Gerui Wang, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026

Definition of compels

Noun

Still, there are strains of deeper sadness and discomfort here, largely in the passive-aggressive tension between Kim’s character and her onscreen mother (superbly played by a new recuit, veteran TV star Choi Myeonggil).

— Guy Lodge, Variety, 15 Aug. 2026
Each year, scientists aim to match the strains in the vaccine to the ones most likely to be dominant in the coming flu season.

— Elise Haulund, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of strains

Verb

However, the rotation of this filament clearly dominates how the galaxies within it spin, perhaps by funneling hydrogen gas along the dark-matter filament and onto the galaxies in a way that coerces their spin while providing further fuel for star formation.

— Keith Cooper, Space.com, 4 Dec. 2025
Haunted by the suspicious death of his ailing mother, Ali, a university professor, coerces his enigmatic gardener to execute a cold-blooded act of vengeance.

— Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 14 Nov. 2025