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pressure cooker
noun
- a reinforced pot, usually of steel or aluminum, in which soups, meats, vegetables, etc., may be cooked quickly in heat above boiling point by steam maintained under pressure.
- any situation, job, assignment, etc., in which a person is faced with urgent responsibilities or demands by other people, constant deadlines, or a hectic work schedule.
pressure cooker
noun
- a strong hermetically sealed pot in which food may be cooked quickly under pressure at a temperature above the normal boiling point of water
- informal.a trainee student attending a shortened qualifying course
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Origin of pressure cooker1
Example Sentences
The pyrolysis plants - often in rural backwaters - are akin to homemade pressure cookers and produce dangerous gasses and chemicals.
He was arrested outside the hospital with the pressure cooker bomb, which was designed to be twice as powerful as those used by the Boston Marathon bombers in 2013.
Add in the pressure cooker of those final-stage matches and the lopsided talent in the England squad, and it becomes harder to believe Tuchel can infuse international management with Premier League intensity.
“The White Lotus,†which was filmed its first season on location at the Four Seasons in Maui, somehow made an exclusive resort seem like a toxic pressure cooker.
It was such a pressure cooker in so many ways.
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