Pressured and Tough

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Tough and pressured are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Tough" instead an adjective "Pressured".

Tough adjective - Not easily chewed.

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Pressured and tough are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Pressured" instead an adjective "Tough".

Nearby Words: toughness, toughen, toughening, tougher, toughed

Thunderhead himself at one point is even able to admit that he's "pissed off" during a tough repair job, but only because he was being pressured into it and he very clearly didn't like using that kind of language.

Source: Fanfic / The Conversion Bureau: Not Alone
As the former Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in the Second World War, Senator McCarthy couldn't even begin to claim that he was soft on commies, which gave Ike much more room to decide his own foreign policy, unlike Truman, who'd been pressured into a tough stance by the McCarthy brigade.

Source: Useful Notes / History Of The Cold War

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