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
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
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
The Federal Reserve’s aggressive rate-hiking campaign to tame inflation burdened farms with more onerous financing terms.
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Jason Ma,
Fortune,
21 June 2026
Some said the team was unfairly burdened, while others who followed the team to Tijuana were thrilled to get closer access to the players.
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ABC News,
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
According to a 2025 University of Florida study, more than 900,000 renters were considered low-income and cost-burdened, meaning at least 40% of their income went to rent.
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Abigail Hasebroock,
Sun Sentinel,
19 June 2026
For Koji, change can’t come soon enough — the years of fighting for justice for his father have burdened him with guilt and regret.
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Yumi Asada,
CNN Money,
13 June 2026
Jolie, in Tunisia on a student visa, feels burdened by her family’s expectations.
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Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
12 June 2026
Donovan McCarty,
The Conversation,
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
The Federal Reserve’s aggressive rate-hiking campaign to tame inflation burdened farms with more onerous financing terms.
—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
21 June 2026
Some said the team was unfairly burdened, while others who followed the team to Tijuana were thrilled to get closer access to the players.
—
ABC News,
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
According to a 2025 University of Florida study, more than 900,000 renters were considered low-income and cost-burdened, meaning at least 40% of their income went to rent.
—
Abigail Hasebroock,
Sun Sentinel,
19 June 2026
For Koji, change can’t come soon enough — the years of fighting for justice for his father have burdened him with guilt and regret.
—
Yumi Asada,
CNN Money,
13 June 2026
Jolie, in Tunisia on a student visa, feels burdened by her family’s expectations.
—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
12 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for burdened
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During the last homestand, the day after the bottom of the order struck out consecutively with the bases loaded in what became a walk-off win against the Baltimore Orioles, Roberts called over Ryan Ward and Alex Freeland in the dugout during batting practice.
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Detroit, though, loaded the bases with one out in the third on a walk, Altuve's fielding error and a hit batter.
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For in the last years of her life she will be troubled by terrible digestion and chronic bowel problems set off by a bout of grave illness, diagnosed as typhoid fever and gall-bladder disease, in the autumn of 1860.
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Since a tiny drone hit the Kremlin in May 2023, Moscow’s skyline has been troubled by Ukraine, even causing last month’s Victory Day parade to be scaled back dramatically.
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Back in Iran, hundreds of people filled Tajrish Square, where ceremonies for the third Shia Imam, Husayn ibn Ali, were taking place as not far away others celebrated the resilience shown by their soccer team against a Belgian side packed with stars like Kevin de Bruyne and Leandro Trossard.
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The sleek style paired well with her glass skin and shimmery eyes, which were stamped with a rainbow of charcoal-blue and brown shadow and filled with a white sparkle in the waterline.
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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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Shami, overwhelmed with grief, was taken to the maternity ward to be monitored, with doctors worried about her and the baby.
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OpenAI has worried that Elon Musk's company's initial rally and subsequent fall signals retail investors may have less interest in buying, the report said.
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Pluverge, an ice cream maker at Taste the Tropics, came to the United States on asylum after he was kidnapped and tortured by gang members in his home country.
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This is just one in a sweaty dungeon of hundreds of TikTok videos that show women being stalked, grabbed, tortured, tossed to the ground, and handcuffed by scary masked soldiers.
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“Burdened.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/burdened. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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