Press
Press verb - To cause (a person) to give in to pressure.
Usage example: a manager pressed by a business crisis to return from his vacation ahead of schedule
Win
Win verb - To achieve victory (as in a contest).
How words are described
| good | good press | good win |
| notable | notable press | notable win |
| standard | standard press | standard win |
| single | single press | single win |
| Other adjectives: small, real, large, huge, bad, quick, early, major, final, unexpected, significant, successive. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- Peter Warr, the then-boss at the team, remarked to the press: "He'll never win a Grand Prix as long as I have a hole in my arse".
- During a press conference afterwards, she was asked about the fact that she is the first Australian actor to win two Academy Awards.
Source: Precision F Strike / Real Life - The Bone People by Keri Hulme (or to use the author's preferred capitalisation, the bone people) is a literary novel that was published by a small press in 1984 and famously went on to become the only New Zealand novel ever to win the Booker Prize.
Source: Literature / The Bone People
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