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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a release valve" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are referring to a mechanism that allows pressure to be released, often metaphorically to describe a way to relieve stress or tension.
Example: "After a long week at work, I find that going for a run serves as a release valve for my stress."
Alternatives: "pressure relief" or "safety valve".
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It's a release valve.
Jean Racine needed a release valve on her mind.
"Mexico is totally dependent on the United States as a release valve for its own poverty".
Binging, she said, functioned as a release valve for pressures and problems that seemed otherwise insurmountable.
Pay-for-performance and other bonuses increasingly functioned as a release valve.
A mental health club was advertised as a release valve for academic pressure.
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He described that need to NPR: "I had to write, because poetry for me is a releasing valve, compiling those fragments of emotions into something that could make sense without theorizing about it, because it's pure emotion".
One of the more complex of these is a discharge when a safety release valve releases.
The system is kept at a constant pressure using a commercial release valve unit.
Often, these relationships disintegrate into ambivalence or resentment, typically climaxing in an affair which serves as a psychological release valve from the emotional pressure.
Maybe this will be seen as a one-time twist of a political release valve.
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