1
as in loading
to place a weight or burden on
burdened the dog with a little backpack
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2
as in troubling
to make sad
refuses to let everyday problems burden her
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Recent Examples of burdening
Early expansion through franchisees lets founders avoid burdening corporate capital with every new location.
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Gary Occhiogrosso, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Hopefully, leaders will make the transition to autonomous service before burdening consumers with even higher sales tax rates.
—Marc Joffe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Sep. 2025
Locking up necessities has backfired in almost every way, annoying customers and burdening employees, yet Cornell stood by the decision and claimed on an earnings call that customers were actually grateful for the inconvenience.
—Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2025
Green’s express goal is to avoid burdening users with ads.
—Esme Fox, NBC news, 20 Aug. 2025
Stopping this practice would go a long way to make college more affordable without burdening taxpayers.
—Paul Weinstein Jr., Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024
Confession might ease your mind but at the expense of burdening another.
—Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 15 Oct. 2024
Babin is chair of the space and aeronautics subcommittee and has conducted CHIPS and Science Act oversight hearings where he's warned against burdening local governments and industry partners with cumbersome regulations and paperwork.
—Maria Curi, Axios, 10 Oct. 2024
Rather than burdening the Defense Department alone with the task of procurement and production, the new body should provide high-level direction, set priorities, and oversee the policies, plans, and procedures of the federal departments involved in defense production.
—Seth G. Jones, Foreign Affairs, 2 Oct. 2024
Gary Occhiogrosso, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Hopefully, leaders will make the transition to autonomous service before burdening consumers with even higher sales tax rates.
—Marc Joffe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Sep. 2025
Locking up necessities has backfired in almost every way, annoying customers and burdening employees, yet Cornell stood by the decision and claimed on an earnings call that customers were actually grateful for the inconvenience.
—Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2025
Green’s express goal is to avoid burdening users with ads.
—Esme Fox, NBC news, 20 Aug. 2025
Stopping this practice would go a long way to make college more affordable without burdening taxpayers.
—Paul Weinstein Jr., Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024
Confession might ease your mind but at the expense of burdening another.
—Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 15 Oct. 2024
Babin is chair of the space and aeronautics subcommittee and has conducted CHIPS and Science Act oversight hearings where he's warned against burdening local governments and industry partners with cumbersome regulations and paperwork.
—Maria Curi, Axios, 10 Oct. 2024
Rather than burdening the Defense Department alone with the task of procurement and production, the new body should provide high-level direction, set priorities, and oversee the policies, plans, and procedures of the federal departments involved in defense production.
—Seth G. Jones, Foreign Affairs, 2 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for burdening
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First steps in that process occurred last week, when the Chokai practiced loading dummy Tomahawk munitions into its vertical launch cells.—
Brad Lendon,
CNN Money,
1 Oct. 2025
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In two of them — July 17, 2005, and July 5, 2008 — the Red Sox actually scored a run before loading the bases … and before Mariano Rivera then escaped all that trouble.—
Jayson Stark,
New York Times,
1 Oct. 2025
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China is poised to win great swathes of the booming European EV market and that is troubling the automakers.—
Neil Winton,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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Yet most fans do not care unduly about what a squad costs and while sound financial management is welcomed, the strength of the team is the thing that is troubling them right now.—
Steve Madeley,
New York Times,
5 Sep. 2025
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Some hospitals owned by private-equity firms sell the land under their buildings, enriching the owners but saddling the facilities with higher rent costs.—
Gretchen Morgenson,
NBC news,
24 Sep. 2025
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Kirk believed universities had drifted away from teaching critical skills like writing and problem solving, focusing instead on conformity while saddling students with debt.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
22 Sep. 2025
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Now, the Franciscan missionaries oppressing the Native Americans in the painting had arrows piercing their heads and bodies.—
Shomik Mukherjee,
Mercury News,
6 Sep. 2025
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Rite Aid first filed for bankruptcy in October 2023, largely because of competition from bigger chains and its debt pile, which topped $4 billion due to expensive legal battles for allegedly filling unlawful opioid prescriptions.—
Auzinea Bacon,
CNN Money,
4 Oct. 2025
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Doing things for me would be washing my car or filling up my tank.—
Virginia Chamlee,
PEOPLE,
4 Oct. 2025
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Still, any further restrictions on shots by ACIP could have trickle-down effects, further depressing already declining immunization rates for vaccine-preventable diseases and raising the risk of outbreaks.—
Annika Kim Constantino,
CNBC,
18 Sep. 2025
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Investors should also note that slower growth reduces the risk of flooding the market and depressing prices.—
Robert Rapier,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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More than 3,000 Hamas fighters gunned down civilians, torturing and mutilating some of them in their own homes, still in their pajamas.—
Romina Ruiz-Goiriena,
USA Today,
4 Oct. 2025
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The trailer presents the Jimmies as a downright terrifying clan, showing them violating and torturing other survivors.—
Allison DeGrushe,
Entertainment Weekly,
23 Sep. 2025
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The idea of Maggie’s untrustworthiness has already been planted in an early scene, mid-party, involving a bathroom cabinet and a hidden envelope conveniently filled with old news clippings concerning dark secrets in Alma’s past.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
3 Oct. 2025
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Some exceptions are expected to be included in the rule concerning avoiding conflict with appraisal requirements or other state laws,, including if the award was made without authority, is not compliant with the appraisal provision, or if fraud, accident, or a material mistake was involved.—
Giulia Carbonaro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Oct. 2025
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“Burdening.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/burdening. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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