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pression

American  
[presh-uhn] / ˈprɛʃ ən /

noun

  • pressions
    plural
  1. the act of pressing; pressure.


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Cloistered in his Harvard office, he was busy turning out more Lost Positives: licit, iterate, fulgent, prentice, placable, delible, souciant, effable, vertently, fangled, sponsible, pression, fatigable.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thanks to Talon's spectacular growth and a new American Viscose Corp. rayon plant, it scarcely felt the de pression of the '305.

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When inexperi enced people run into an everyday ex pression in a foreign work that seems weird to them, they change it into some thing equally weird.

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She beckons Charlotte for a second opinion, her ex pression uncertain, one arm modestly shielding the bodice.

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Pierre Troubleaux was unfortunately under the misim- pression that the success for DGI was his and his alone and that he too was a standard . . .a fixture.

From Terminal Compromise: computer terrorism: when privacy and freedom are the victims: a novel by Schwartau, Winn

Of course, when you read the Bible, im- pressions are made upon your mind.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 5 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions by Ingersoll, Robert Green

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