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be duress
verb
To put under duress; to pressure.
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Under what appeared to be duress, Oliver posted to his Soundcloud an entire LP, slow'motion.wave, his first new work in almost a year.
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But there was duress aplenty deep in the fifth set of his semifinal on Saturday at the United States Open.
Flacco has improved (very gradually) over the past two years, but he's not a consistent enough downfield passer to conquer a tough Texans secondary while he's under duress (and against that swarming front seven, he will be under duress).
Yet there are some slim reasons for hope.One is duress.
But the men who did the questioning flatly dispute that it was duress that moved them to do so.
There is emotional duress, too.
Each Knick was under duress.
"It was under duress," this aide stressed.
"Capitalism itself is under duress," he said.
But she is, under duress, steel.
Understand me: I was under duress.
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