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  • And I think the same kind of groupthink might be leading to a little bit of over-hype for LBP -- I've seen it a couple of times at events and stuff, and not that it isn't legitimately exciting, but I confess to feeling peer-pressured to be "really awed and excited" about it when I'm merely "interested."

    Lonely Hearts SVGL 2008

  • As a single mother getting zero child support from our deadbeat father, our mom spent seven years climbing out from the have-not ranks of renters, her three sons weighing her down with peer-pressured demands for Izod shirts and Nike sneakers.

    Freud’s Blind Spot Elisa Albert 2010

  • One night he went to a party, where he got peer-pressured into smoking marijuana.

    mostly good girls Leila Sales 2010

  • And I think the same kind of groupthink might be leading to a little bit of over-hype for LBP -- I've seen it a couple of times at events and stuff, and not that it isn't legitimately exciting, but I confess to feeling peer-pressured to be "really awed and excited" about it when I'm merely "interested."

    Archive 2008-10-01 SVGL 2008

  • One night he went to a party, where he got peer-pressured into smoking marijuana.

    mostly good girls Leila Sales 2010

  • One night he went to a party, where he got peer-pressured into smoking marijuana.

    mostly good girls Leila Sales 2010

  • You really think that white racist Iowans were "peer-pressured" by other white racists into voting for Obama?

    Hillary Spokesman: She Won Because New Hampshire Voters "Liked What They Saw" 2009

  • This newest batch of episodes are not so good, partly because of the whole now blown way out of proportion ‘laughter not being there thing’ – but we are intelligent, and surely we are not so peer-pressured as to feel that we can only laugh when others are.

    Is RED DWARF cursed? | Obsessed With Film 2009

  • I have a lot of younger friends who identified with the Frog Bros. or the two Coreys and were just happy to see them on screen again, but for me it was all about the older kids: David and Star and poor, peer-pressured Michael.

    Lost Boys: The Prequel? Michael May 2009

  • You really think that white racist Iowans were "peer-pressured" by other white racists into voting for Obama?

    Hillary Spokesman: She Won Because New Hampshire Voters "Liked What They Saw" 2009

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