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as in loads
a mass or quantity of something taken up and carried, conveyed, or transported
the early settlers often used horses to carry their burdens
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2
as in responsibilities
something one must do because of prior agreement
the burden of homework prevented the youngster from joining his friends at the game
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as in weights
to place a weight or burden on
burdened the dog with a little backpack
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as in troubles
to make sad
refuses to let everyday problems burden her
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Recent Examples of burdens
Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 29 Jan. 2026
According to the company, this reduces inventory burdens, streamlines logistics, and shortens installation timelines.
—Dianne Plummer, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
This dynamic creates new burdens inside claim departments.
—Connie Etemadi, USA Today, 27 Jan. 2026
Today is about lightening burdens.
—Tarot.com, Sun Sentinel, 24 Jan. 2026
Trump often describes them as burdens that inhibit his desire for swift, decisive action.
—Greg Myre, NPR, 22 Jan. 2026
Tribal council member Regina Mabray said potential protests and traffic impacts risk placing avoidable burdens on the surrounding community.
—Isa Almeida, Oklahoman, 22 Jan. 2026
To encourage billionaires to deliver, Trump in his first year pursued policies on artificial intelligence and financial regulation that can benefit the wealthy, along with tax cuts, reduced IRS enforcement and fewer regulatory burdens for large-scale investments.
—Josh Boak, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2026
The city can’t afford to let those who have the greatest financial risk carry even greater burdens.
—Julie Raskin, New York Daily News, 18 Jan. 2026
Alexa Mikhail, Flow Space, 21 Jan. 2026
The most significant successes are often for companies addressing conditions with large, underserved disease burdens.
—Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 13 Jan. 2026
This model enables rapid domestic and international growth without the balance-sheet intensity that burdens competitors.
—Michael Khouw, CNBC, 26 Nov. 2025
And that power burdens school districts with edicts and mandates that often discourage reform and experimentation while doing little to improve student outcomes.
—Editorial, Boston Herald, 22 Nov. 2025
Advocates say the push burdens states with duplicative verification checks and could lead people to lose coverage just for missing paperwork deadlines.
—Kff Health News, Denver Post, 6 Nov. 2025
Advocates say the push burdens states with duplicative verification checks and could lead people to lose coverage just for missing paperwork deadlines.
—Phil Galewitz, CNN Money, 31 Oct. 2025
And that burdens a lot of our recipients.
—Ashley Lopez, NPR, 10 Oct. 2025
Critics of the way the administration is handling immigration enforcement have raised concerns that holding people without criminal convictions or charges unnecessarily burdens the system and pulls undocumented immigrants away from their families.
—Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
Noun
Of course, physical production already allows storytellers to do this, but AI advocates point out that given the time and budget burdens so many of these period productions would never have gotten made in the first place.
—Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 29 Jan. 2026
According to the company, this reduces inventory burdens, streamlines logistics, and shortens installation timelines.
—Dianne Plummer, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
This dynamic creates new burdens inside claim departments.
—Connie Etemadi, USA Today, 27 Jan. 2026
Today is about lightening burdens.
—Tarot.com, Sun Sentinel, 24 Jan. 2026
Trump often describes them as burdens that inhibit his desire for swift, decisive action.
—Greg Myre, NPR, 22 Jan. 2026
Tribal council member Regina Mabray said potential protests and traffic impacts risk placing avoidable burdens on the surrounding community.
—Isa Almeida, Oklahoman, 22 Jan. 2026
To encourage billionaires to deliver, Trump in his first year pursued policies on artificial intelligence and financial regulation that can benefit the wealthy, along with tax cuts, reduced IRS enforcement and fewer regulatory burdens for large-scale investments.
—Josh Boak, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2026
The city can’t afford to let those who have the greatest financial risk carry even greater burdens.
—Julie Raskin, New York Daily News, 18 Jan. 2026
Verb
The disproportionate health burdens women of color face are not unique to the perimenopause and menopause experience.
—Alexa Mikhail, Flow Space, 21 Jan. 2026
The most significant successes are often for companies addressing conditions with large, underserved disease burdens.
—Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 13 Jan. 2026
This model enables rapid domestic and international growth without the balance-sheet intensity that burdens competitors.
—Michael Khouw, CNBC, 26 Nov. 2025
And that power burdens school districts with edicts and mandates that often discourage reform and experimentation while doing little to improve student outcomes.
—Editorial, Boston Herald, 22 Nov. 2025
Advocates say the push burdens states with duplicative verification checks and could lead people to lose coverage just for missing paperwork deadlines.
—Kff Health News, Denver Post, 6 Nov. 2025
Advocates say the push burdens states with duplicative verification checks and could lead people to lose coverage just for missing paperwork deadlines.
—Phil Galewitz, CNN Money, 31 Oct. 2025
And that burdens a lot of our recipients.
—Ashley Lopez, NPR, 10 Oct. 2025
Critics of the way the administration is handling immigration enforcement have raised concerns that holding people without criminal convictions or charges unnecessarily burdens the system and pulls undocumented immigrants away from their families.
—Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for burdens
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And the carne asada fries loads shredded cheese and carne asada onto a bed of french fries, topped with two salsas, sour cream, cilantro and onions.—
Camila Pedrosa,
Sacbee.com,
28 Jan. 2026
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Attackers can hide instructions inside that address and make Copilot execute them as soon as the page loads.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
24 Jan. 2026
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That last hurdle, safely landing a SpaceX Starship HLS (Human Landing System) spacecraft, carrying two astronauts, upright on the moon, particularly troubles Green.—
Dan Vergano,
Scientific American,
23 Oct. 2025
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Rather, what troubles him are the claims that the song’s success has been manufactured.—
Melinda Newman,
Billboard,
1 Oct. 2025
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Reyes worries the winter storm gripping North Texas will have serious consequences for her finances.—
Elissa Jorgensen,
Dallas Morning News,
26 Jan. 2026
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Isabel worries about a golf ball hitting her amid the customers’ wild swings.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
24 Jan. 2026
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Sure enough, the pounds start falling off, at a rate that concerns the increasingly interested Alanya.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
28 Jan. 2026
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By making the characters’ concerns full-length musical numbers, High School Musical acknowledges just how all encompassing these problems can feel.—
CT Jones,
Rolling Stone,
24 Jan. 2026
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Usually a warm El Nino spikes temperatures and its cool La Nina flip side depresses temperatures.—
Dallas Morning News,
Dallas Morning News,
14 Jan. 2026
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Empirical studies confirm that reliance on large donors depresses participation in time-intensive legislative activities—things such as bill sponsorship, floor debate, and committee work.—
Duncan Hosie,
The Atlantic,
13 Jan. 2026
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The retrospection tortures her.—
Alexandra Rockey Fleming,
PEOPLE,
14 Jan. 2026
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Later, in one of the movie's most satisfying scenes, Millie locks Andrew in the attic and tortures him by loudly smashing each plate.—
Lauren Huff,
Entertainment Weekly,
19 Dec. 2025
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His policies have been instrumental in dismantling the criminal enterprise that oppresses the Venezuelan people.—
Amir Daftari,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Oct. 2025
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“Burdens.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/burdens. Accessed 4 Feb. 2026.
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