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pressed

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. pressedadjective

    compacted by ironing

Wiktionary

  1. pressedverb

    contraction of impressed

  2. pressedadjective

    Under strain or deprivation.

Wikipedia

  1. Pressed

    Pressed is a 2011 Canadian crime drama film directed by Justin Donnelly and starring Luke Goss, Tyler Johnston, Jeffrey Ballard, and Michael Eklund. It is the debut directing project for Justin Donnelly.

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  1. pressed

    Pressed refers to applying pressure, force, or weight on something, typically in a downward direction. It could range from compacting a material, ironing clothes to making something flat or smooth, or even urging or persuading someone to do something. The term has diverse applications based on the context it is used in.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Pressed

    of Press

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'pressed' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3345

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'pressed' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4736

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of pressed in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of pressed in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of pressed in a Sentence

  1. Stephanie Savage:

    They talked a lot about family and the idea of whatever villainous things the characters in the show do that they never stop loving each other, Savage told reporters. He explained the Shapiros pressed that the characters’ sense of family was the central thing that held the show together for all those years….

  2. Jacob Frey:

    For five minutes we watched as a white officer pressed his knee to the neck of a black man. For five minutes, when you hear someone calling for help, you are supposed to help. This officer failed in the most basic human sense. What happened... was simply awful.

  3. Sam Bullard:

    One is hard-pressed as to not concur that the U.S. economy not only remains on solid footing, but is likely to show an accelerated pace of growth in the second quarter.

  4. Daniela Rivera:

    I got on the scooter, pressed the gas, and the scooter just completely slipped out from under me, i skid across the gravel floor and had burns all over my legs.

  5. Steinunn Guðjónsdóttir:

    With #MeToo, women are now coming out and naming the men who raped them, even if they haven't pressed charges against them, and many people are like :' Whoa, whoa, whoa ! You can not do it like this, you have to do it the right way,' there's a lot of pressure on survivors to do the' correct thing' and press charges and try to have the perpetrator convicted, but the' right way' isn't working, the vast majority of cases, they don't even make it to the judge. So they don't get any judgment on whether the perpetrator is guilty or not. It's just a mess.

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