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the gentle violence of turning chaos into something flat, smooth, or fatally true.
means Applying steady force or weight to flatten, smooth, or shape something — or, figuratively, an urgent matter that demands immediate attention.
from From Old French 'presser' and ultimately Latin 'pressare,' a frequentative of 'premere' meaning 'to press, squeeze.' The same Latin root pushes its way into 'pressure,' 'express,' and 'compress.' The sense of 'urgent' grew from the physical one — a pressing need is one that bears down on you, weight you can't ignore, just as a press bears down on cloth or grape.
- vinyl revival
- Pressing plants ran decades-old machines to meet 2020s demand
- medieval torture
- Peine forte et dure crushed the silent under stones
- flower memory
- Pressed blooms keep color for over a century
- olive truth
- First cold press yields the finest oil
- language ghost
- Newspapers are still called the press centuries on
wine pressing harvest — bordeaux vineyards crush 400,000 tons of grapes annually in autumn
trooping the colour — british royal guards perform precision pressing movements at buckingham palace since 1755
printing press gutenberg — johannes gutenberg's movable type press revolutionized europe around 1440