adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a stressful lifestyle
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A stressful lifestyle may lead to a number of medical problems.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
less
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Pond remedies are invariably less stressful to fish, as they do not have to be netted out individually.
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How could a longer ride be less stressful than a shorter one?
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I deduce a mental breakdown, remedial retirement and a less stressful job among the daffodils.
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If they can do so before conception, the period of pregnancy will be much less stressful .
more
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Social services stormed in Hollywood-style and made the whole incident 20 times more stressful than it had to be.
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At this time the father, however, was in a more stressful situation at work.
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Women have been conditioned to believe that men's work is harder and more stressful than theirs, which is a con.
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For others, issues of separation from parents make the longer day seem even more stressful .
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The situation is made more stressful for workers by being given impossibly high targets as an attempt to increase motivation.
very
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It starts with, who do I call, and becomes very complex and very stressful .
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The emptiness can be devastating and very stressful .
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It has been a very stressful period for anybody trying to launch a mine.
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Female speaker Students coming to Oxford and Cambridge find it very stressful .
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If all goes smoothly, we can get the drug in about two weeks, but life becomes very stressful .
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It can be very stressful , especially as we are so short staffed.
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It was a very stressful incident.
■ NOUN
event
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Relapse of florid symptoms and possibly their first onset can be precipitated by stressful events .
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Social scientists have devised a check-list of stressful events , weighted according to how serious they are.
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Among the discoveries made in psychoneuroimmunology is that stressful events can make the immune cells far less responsive to infection.
situation
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Identifying stressful situations Your child or teenager may find the following method helpful.
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At this time the father, however, was in a more stressful situation at work.
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Perhaps worst of all, there are those stressful situations where one is accustomed to turn to tobacco for support.
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Hotel managers must be able to get along with all kinds of people, even in stressful situations .
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Corals and anemones are sensitive creatures and react to any stressful situation by closing down to avoid the cause of their stress.
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Researchers have found that people rely upon their experience to help them understand and cope with new or stressful situations .
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This may be a very nice judgment to make in a stressful situation . 2.
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In fact, some people even manage to thrive in potentially stressful situations .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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It was a stressful time for the whole family.
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Keeping the whole thing a secret is obviously very stressful for her.
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Looking after small children can be very stressful .
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What's the most stressful aspect of your job?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For many people a confrontation may be too stressful and uncomfortable.
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Hotel managers must be able to get along with all kinds of people, even in stressful situations.
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It starts with, who do I call, and becomes very complex and very stressful .
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Often they result from particularly stressful circumstances but they may simply be a moment of carelessness.
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Relationships grow stressful when managers and subordinates bump elbows, so to speak within the same frame of reference.
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Representatives from out-patient teams played a more active part in stressful daily decisions about child care management.
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Together with Feeley and Lleland-Clanahan arrived shortly-we watched the events of that stressful day unfold on television.