as in aggressive
having or showing a bold forcefulness in the pursuit of a goal
a high-pressure salesman who wouldn't take "no" for an answer "for a limited time only" and other standbys of high-pressure advertising
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as in to merchandise
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as in to threaten
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Hayleigh Evans, The Arizona Republic, 25 Oct. 2024
The opening images plunge us into a roaring conflagration, but Yorick Le Saux’s camera is mesmerized not by burning buildings but by a rogue fire hose, whose high-pressure spray nearly defeats the workers trying to wrest it under control.
—Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2024
Emilia Benton, SELF, 15 Mar. 2023
Unlike existing portable desalination systems based on reverse osmosis, the MIT team’s prototype does not need any high-pressure pumping or maintenance by technicians.
—IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2023
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Adjective
Smith attributes the unusually hot weather to a persistent high-pressure system, sometimes referred to as a heat dome, that has settled over the Southwest, providing little cloud cover and trapping heat below.
—Hayleigh Evans, The Arizona Republic, 25 Oct. 2024
The opening images plunge us into a roaring conflagration, but Yorick Le Saux’s camera is mesmerized not by burning buildings but by a rogue fire hose, whose high-pressure spray nearly defeats the workers trying to wrest it under control.
—Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2024
Verb
At the time, Cherington was working at a high-pressure job as an exercise physiology-and-physical-therapy assistant in the intensive care unit at a Boston hospital.
—Emilia Benton, SELF, 15 Mar. 2023
Unlike existing portable desalination systems based on reverse osmosis, the MIT team’s prototype does not need any high-pressure pumping or maintenance by technicians.
—IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2023
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The Biden-Harris administration unleashed an aggressive Department of Justice and an even more proactive Federal Trade Commission led by Lina Khan that’s been quashing deals across industries from publishing to pharma to fashion.Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2024
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Should Harris have adopted a more aggressive media strategy?Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 5 Nov. 2024
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Retailers do have opportunities, like end caps and merchandising events, to feature smaller brands, but these brands usually don’t have the big budgets that multinationals do.Christopher Marquis, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2024
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Lisa Roath, Target’s chief marketing officer, will take on the role of chief merchandising officer of food, essentials and beauty in early 2025.Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2019
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When a brutal hazing incident threatens to shut down all fraternity and sorority operations on campus, these cousins hatch a plan for Lucien to seduce Annie Grover (Savannah Lee Smith), the daughter of the Vice President of the United States who's a student at the university.Nick Romano, EW.com, 24 Oct. 2024
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Whenever factional rivalries, regional tensions between Eastern and Western Republicans, or conflict between industrial and agrarian sections, threatened party unity, the tariff cemented them together.Bruce J. Schulman / Made by History, TIME, 24 Oct. 2024
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To an ambitious and left-leaning young scholar like Harris, the clash of ideas was alluring.John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2024
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Across Asia, there are bilateral agreements between countries, ambitious projects to integrate systems like Thailand’s PromptPay with Singapore’s PayNow, and national efforts to expand domestic real-time payment capabilities into the cross-border space.Zennon Kapron, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
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Additionally, the District and several local school systems like Montgomery County, Prince George's County and Fairfax County have received settlement money from the e-cigarette maker Juul for marketing its products to young people.Mimi Montgomery, Axios, 4 Nov. 2024
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Getting the product to market quickly and then rapidly improving it and adding features allows Microsoft to see what the market wants and needs and then feed that back into product development.Mark Tauschek, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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There's no Democrat in the race, technically, as Fischer is fending off a fierce challenge from independent Senate candidate Dan Osborn, a union leader.Nicholas Kerr, ABC News, 3 Nov. 2024
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But he’s also made one of his most satisfying movie movies to date by centering the experiences of three (and eventually four) fierce women, rather than his usual brooding men.Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2024
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Today, women’s accounts for around 15 percent of sales but is only sold through the Billy Reid channels, and is not wholesaled.Jean E. Palmieri, WWD, 11 Oct. 2024
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What was more concerning for Ford, though, was that a Beetle wholesaled for $465 less than the Ford Fairlane and $280 less than the Falcon.Larry Printz, Ars Technica, 26 Sep. 2024
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To the south, tropical depression 16 has developed in the South China Sea and will menace Vietnam.Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 19 Sep. 2024
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In 2021, Border Patrol agents on horseback menaced Haitian asylum seekers along the southern border.Roxane Gay, The New Yorker, 17 Sep. 2024
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