1
as in loaded
to place a weight or burden on
burdened the dog with a little backpack
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as in troubled
to make sad
refuses to let everyday problems burden her
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Recent Examples of burdened
Trump had argued that a president shouldn’t be burdened with defending himself against decades-old charges.
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Maureen Groppe,
USA Today,
29 June 2026
The armed forces, already burdened by years of public distrust, now face what analysts say could be a near-total collapse in legitimacy.
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Antonio María Delgado,
Miami Herald,
29 June 2026
Ireland go home no longer burdened by the streak and adding to an historic weekend in which the men defeated India for the first time in a T20 in Belfast.
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ABC News,
27 June 2026
The place is burdened by its size, with a culture that current and former employees routinely describe as bureaucratic, sometimes bordering on sclerotic, and highly risk-adverse.
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Jeremy Kahn,
Fortune,
23 June 2026
In a city already destabilized by unlawful tax foreclosure, fraudsters found opportunity in homes burdened by vacancy and broken chains of ownership.
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Donovan McCarty,
The Conversation,
22 June 2026
The clinical research ecosystem has never been more technologically capable — or more burdened by its own ambition.
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Janice Chang,
STAT,
22 June 2026
In Orange County, 61% of renters are cost-burdened, and after years of rents climbing far faster than paychecks, the math no longer works.
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Kam Shenai,
The Orlando Sentinel,
21 June 2026
Often, host nations enter the World Cup burdened by expectation and struggle under the spotlight.
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Clemente Lisi,
Forbes.com,
20 June 2026
Maureen Groppe,
USA Today,
29 June 2026
The armed forces, already burdened by years of public distrust, now face what analysts say could be a near-total collapse in legitimacy.
—
Antonio María Delgado,
Miami Herald,
29 June 2026
Ireland go home no longer burdened by the streak and adding to an historic weekend in which the men defeated India for the first time in a T20 in Belfast.
—
ABC News,
27 June 2026
The place is burdened by its size, with a culture that current and former employees routinely describe as bureaucratic, sometimes bordering on sclerotic, and highly risk-adverse.
—
Jeremy Kahn,
Fortune,
23 June 2026
In a city already destabilized by unlawful tax foreclosure, fraudsters found opportunity in homes burdened by vacancy and broken chains of ownership.
—
Donovan McCarty,
The Conversation,
22 June 2026
The clinical research ecosystem has never been more technologically capable — or more burdened by its own ambition.
—
Janice Chang,
STAT,
22 June 2026
In Orange County, 61% of renters are cost-burdened, and after years of rents climbing far faster than paychecks, the math no longer works.
—
Kam Shenai,
The Orlando Sentinel,
21 June 2026
Often, host nations enter the World Cup burdened by expectation and struggle under the spotlight.
—
Clemente Lisi,
Forbes.com,
20 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for burdened
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The implosion came in the third inning when Manaea loaded the bases with two outs, with the Mets already down 1-0.
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Webb allowed three straight singles following McCarthy’s homer, then walked a batter with the bases loaded to gift the Rockies their second run.
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As the second half began, Cape Verde continued to hold off the Argentinians and managed a couple of opportunities on the opposition’s goal, though nothing that overly troubled Emiliano Martínez.
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Woolf composed her great modernist novels and her brilliant essays while troubled by suicidal thoughts and the tumult of two world wars.
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The Northern California chain was known for its Kojas, a sandwich filled with Korean BBQ meat and sauces between garlic-fried-rice buns.
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Meanwhile, the infrared components illustrate the explosion’s growing shell filled with cosmic dust.
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Rising costs of components, supply chain constraints, and weaker consumer demand that are all partly linked to the Iran war have depressed smartphone sales in much of the continent, resulting in the slowest growth of shipments to Africa in two years, research firm Omdia said.
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Two Democrats at the top would have depressed Republican turnout for other key races — especially for Congress — in the fall.
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This created not just a current budget drain but also saddled us with long-term pension costs.
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The most obvious comp is that Disney couldn’t buy Fox’s TV networks because doing so would’ve saddled Disney with two broadcast networks, ABC and Fox, and that’s a big regulatory no-no.
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Your structure sorts the whole world into two boxes, oppressor and oppressed.
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The album is both plea, polemic and protest, but its argument — that oppressed and working people deserve rights and dignity, and that those things have historically been won through rebellion and revolution — is hardly radical.
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The officials said the US worried that Israel might assassinate Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the Iranian parliamentary speaker who is leading negotiations with the US, or Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, who has also been a public face of the talks.
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That was not enough for investors worried about free cash flow and Meta’s reliance on a narrow, economically sensitive revenue stream.
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Walker was abducted, raped, tortured and murdered after attending a Valentine’s Day dance with her boyfriend.
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The actual abduction was committed, according to the feds, by supermarket owner Abu Chowdhury — who’s accused of heading a kidnapping ring that also snatched and tortured two men who crossed his vengeful wife, Iffat Lubna.
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