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pressuring

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for pressuring.

Editorial note

The world would pressure the government into pressuring the gatekeeper into getting another cure from the AI.

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Quick take

An act or instance of somebody being pressured.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of pressuring gathered in one view.

noun

An act or instance of somebody being pressured.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for pressuring.

noun

An act or instance of somebody being pressured.

Example sentences

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The world would pressure the government into pressuring the gatekeeper into getting another cure from the AI.

2

Do you blame GitHub for being pressured the internet mob - or do you blame the internet mob for pressuring GitHub?

3

If management was pressuring you to work those insane hours, you would have very probably found better treatment at another company.

4

Obama actually denounced the Chinese government for pressuring companies into giving up encryption keys, that same week he had criticized U.

5

This pressuring your kids with these expectations is crazy, because for even the best students, the Ivy admissions process is a crapshoot.

6

You were front and center will accusations against the Chinese and Russians but strangely it's Snowden's fault when it's the 'friendly' UK doing the pressuring.

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It's with the over-zealous politically correct internet mob pressuring GitHub.

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There are other ways of pressuring the car companies.

9

I have never seen a company execute well while pressuring for speed.

10

In the mean time, they started pressuring him to sign, he told them it was with the lawyer right now (though he hadn't yet found one, he was just stalling), and they freaked.

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Making it easy to compare services would allow users to actually distinguish based on this metric, which is the first step towards pressuring companies to actually compete on this metric.

12

Ostensibly this is a function of the pay rate pressuring people to join the hiring pool.

Quote examples

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"While the revelations about pressuring the peer review process and apparent slowness in responding to an avalanche of requests for information" Ja, ja...

2

You are pressuring people to spend as much time on the problem as possible to "prove they are a good programmer." It's exploitative - you aren't paying us and the probability that we will get hired is extremely small.

3

Another problem is that this is the same Apple that is pressuring record labels to cut off the free tier on Spotify, which labels get compensated for at the same rate as paid streams, because it "devalues the music." As if this doesn't.

Proper noun examples

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Pressuring a monopoly to harm your competitors isn't necessary to do business with said monopoly.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use pressuring in a sentence?

The world would pressure the government into pressuring the gatekeeper into getting another cure from the AI.

What does pressuring mean?

An act or instance of somebody being pressured.

What part of speech is pressuring?

pressuring is commonly used as noun.