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Meanings of high-pressure in English

Aggressively and persistently persuasive.

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        Examples for "hard-hitting"
        Examples for "hard-hitting"
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        Greek MPs voted for the bailout, including hard-hitting austerity measures, on Thursday.
        Radio NZ
        2
        Yesterday, he produced a hard-hitting analysis of the challenges facing Aer Lingus.
        The Irish Times
        3
        Did Mr McKay think his movie was a hard-hitting satire on capitalism?
        The Guardian
        4
        Is a hard-hitting lower-order batsman who can also take apart tired opposition.
        The Guardian
        5
        Lee embraced the volatile times by producing hard-hitting songs by Rastafarian artistes.
        Jamaica Observer
        Usage of high-pressure in English
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        All that was required was to place them in a high-pressure situation.
        A Long Way from Home
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        But it was nonstop, high-pressure work, which was probably good for us.
        Life
        3
        Regardless of who plays, they will enter a high-pressure situation on Thursday.
        News.com.au
        4
        Customers complained Cash Express used high-pressure collection tactics, the CFPB database shows.
        Reuters
        5
        The mayor introduced the high-pressure fellows to other people-andthe milking began.
        Secret Armies / The New Technique of Nazi Warfare
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        Its products include specialty chemicals, photo-sensitive plates, high-pressure cylinders and metal panels.
        Reuters
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        You have fought thousands of matches in the most high-pressure scenarios imaginable.
        My Fight/Your Fight
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        The size of the resulting multilamellar liposomes was reduced by high-pressure homogenization.
        Pubmed
        9
        The processor reflected on its creation in a hiss of high-pressure steam.
        Perdido Street Station
        10
        Nearly a week of high-pressure application appeared to have accomplished so little.
        As It Was in the Beginning
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        High-strung, high-pressure editors omit the unnecessary, condensation being part of their creed.
        The Veiled Lady, and Other Men and Women
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        It was a high-pressure hose, and the corpse jumped on the table.
        Under the dome: a novel
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        The worm rose up again, thrashing about like an unchecked high-pressure hose.
        Mentats of Dune
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        A high-pressure spray of orange pop hit Billy full in the face.
        Doctor Sleep
        15
        Two American laboratories tested the peppers using a new technology, high-pressure liquid chromatography.
        Wicked plants
        16
        DEE makes high-pressure piping systems for the power and oil and gas industries.
        Reuters