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burdened

verb

Definition of burdened

past tense of burden

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 They were taken over by Discovery in a deal that burdened the new cable TV conglomerate with tens of billions of dollars of debt. — David Folkenflik, NPR, 13 July 2026 The second was found orphaned in Carmel, underweight and heavily burdened with parasites. — Nollyanne Delacruz, Mercury News, 12 July 2026 For decades, the powers that be have burdened the Eastside with freeways, warehouses, public corruption, unsightly developments that have brought on gentrification and civic negligence bordering on the criminal. — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2026 Foreman said many tenants with eviction histories haven’t been evicted again in the years since, but are still burdened by their record. — Cuyler Dunn, Kansas City Star, 10 July 2026 Hardworking legal immigrants should not be burdened by the broken Biden rules that allowed millions to stream across our border. — Scott Singer, Sun Sentinel, 9 July 2026 Yet another review of EAR audio found that people who sighed frequently were not necessarily burdened by negative emotions. — Shayla Love, New Yorker, 8 July 2026 About 6,000 Homer Glen households are served by Illinois American Water and are burdened with high water bills. — Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 8 July 2026 Many of the costumes directly imagine a world where a rock star can feel less burdened by the concept of appearing palatable — or passing for straight — to sell mainstream records. — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 7 July 2026

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The Brewers loaded the bases with no outs in the sixth against Calvin Faucher (4-5), who came in to open the inning.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 19 July 2026
That came an inning after Manny Machado walked to the plate with one out and the bases loaded and grounded into a double play.

— Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 July 2026

Definition of loaded

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Reaction to Vatican excommunication De Piante said a handful of families skipped the first Sunday mass after the Vatican’s declaration because they were troubled by the news.

— Nora O'Neill, Charlotte Observer, 15 July 2026
Our conversation also forced me to confront something that has long troubled me about the public debate surrounding health equity.

— Sachin H. Jain, Forbes.com, 11 July 2026

Definition of troubled

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In addition, the way graduation rates are reported across BIE schools was changed to address flawed data collection that previously depressed the numbers.

— Savannah Peters, Fortune, 13 July 2026
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.

— Alexander Onukwue, semafor.com, 8 June 2026

Definition of depressed

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This created not just a current budget drain but also saddled us with long-term pension costs.

— Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 June 2026
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.

— Brian Welk, IndieWire, 18 June 2026

Definition of saddled

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Earlier this year, investors worried artificial intelligence would disrupt the industry.

— Alexa LoMonaco, CNBC, 16 July 2026
But fighting that erupted in the Middle East days later upended that trajectory, pushing bond yields and mortgage rates higher as investors worried the conflict would keep oil prices and inflation elevated.

— Samantha Delouya, CNN Money, 16 July 2026

Definition of worried

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Where the film diverts from the norm lies in the unique, complicated characters and their weird, tortured even touching relationships.

— Randy Myers, Mercury News, 16 July 2026
Along these routes, the bulldozers piled up mounds to enclose fortified compounds, military outposts and detention facilities where Palestinians were interrogated and tortured.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 July 2026

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