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"Stress" in a Sentence (17 examples)
I would like to stress that it is more convenient to control tariffs as a bloc rather than country by country.
A closed fist can indicate stress.
Haruyo is undoubtedly under stress during this entrance-examination season.
If you stop and relax, this will relieve the tension and stress in your shoulders.
It's necessary to avoid stress.
The methods used to overcome stress are different for men and women: drinking is the major method used by men, while women deal with stress by chatting.
Common causes of stress are work and human relationships.
The stress began to tell on his heart.
Karaoke is good for reducing stress.
I'm always under stress.
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Go easy on him, he's been under a lot of stress lately.
Lazarus and Folkman’s transactional model of stress and coping describes psychological stress as “a particular relationship between the person and the environment that is appraised as taxing or exceeding his or her resources and endangering his or her well-being” (Lazarus & Folkman, 1984, p.19). According to these authors, the essence of inducing stress is how a person appraises the situation and whether he or she has the physical and mental ability to cope with the problem.
Some people put the stress on the first syllable of “controversy”; others put it on the second.
The shift from pitch to stress appears to happen before the other obliques begin merging in the Proto-Italic, Proto-Germanic, Primitive Irish, and Middle Indo-Aryan. But further investigation into the timeline of sound changes […] shows that, at least in Germanic, the oblique and core noun stems sound quite unpredictably different in all these families by the time of the crucial accent shift from pitch to stress. […] once a language becomes stress-sensitive, there seems to be a strong tendency in early Indo-European languages to shift the stress to the first syllable. This change happens shortly after the change to stress accent in Proto-Germanic, Proto-Italic, and Proto-Celtic, and even Thessalian, with evidence from Dybo's Law and Verner's Law left behind to show that sound changes happened after the changes to stress accent.
With this sad Hersal of his heavy stress, The warlike Damzel was empassion's sore, And said; Sir Knight, your Cause is nothing less Than is your Sorrow , certes if not more
“Emphasis” is stressed on the first syllable, but “emphatic” is stressed on the second.
I must stress that this information is given in strict confidence.
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