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"stress" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often emphasise (9 letters).
Definitions
Pressure, strain, or emphasis.
Word origin
From a shortening of Middle English destresse, borrowed from Old French destrecier, from Latin distringō (“to stretch out”). This form probably coalesced with Middle English stresse, from Old French estrece (“narrowness”), from Vulgar Latin *strictia, from Latin strictus (“narrow”).
Used in a sentence
“Go easy on him, he's been under a lot of stress lately.”
“lexical stress”
“phrase stress, prosodic stress”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Workplace tension”6 letters
02“Pressure or tension”6 letters
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