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An example use of pressure in a speech by a native speaker of british english:
“… quite a lot of pressure on this job and …”
Pressure is the force exerted by a fluid on a surface.
the word pressure occurs in english on average 119.8 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for A2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.
it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that pressure can be often used in the following areas:
1) communication, information, and media;