encumbering

present participle of encumber
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Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for encumbering
Verb
  • Since Ruben Amorim’s arrival at Manchester United 10 months ago, the team’s struggles to score goals have been hampering them.
    Ahmed Walid, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Nurse Chapel concludes that sleep, friends, and romantic entanglements have been hampering her productivity.
    Richard Edwards, Space.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Instead of segregating different regions behind loading screens as with previous games, now your environment is a single seamless setting that feels more connected than ever.
    Griff Griffin, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
  • With Xavier Edwards and Agustin Ramirez on, Otto Lopez reached on a fielder’s choice, loading the bases with two out.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Former Klamath Tribes Chairman Jeff Mitchell, a longtime advocate for dam removal, told The Arizona Republic in 2024 that his tribe had suffered from the dams impeding salmon migration years before the downriver tribes.
    Debra Utacia Krol, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2025
  • But that kind of government involvement carries any number of risks, like impeding overall economic growth or making US companies less competitive around the world.
    Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 25 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • The senior Lebanese official warned that continued Israeli strikes on Lebanon are hindering government efforts to disarm the group.
    Mostafa Salem, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Armstrong was on probation for a case in Georgia involving charges of first-degree cruelty to children, false imprisonment, simple battery and obstructing or hindering of law enforcement, records show.
    Olivia Lloyd, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Our cheese filling includes part-skim mozzarella and ricotta cheese.
    Bethany Thayer, Freep.com, 6 Sep. 2025
  • In fiscal year 2024, 19 states reported filling all slots in the Conrad 30 program, according to data collected by 3RNET, a nonprofit that connects health professionals with jobs in rural areas.
    Center Square, The Washington Examiner, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Armstrong was on probation for a case in Georgia involving charges of first-degree cruelty to children, false imprisonment, simple battery and obstructing or hindering of law enforcement, records show.
    Olivia Lloyd, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Burning Man organizers stressed the importance of not obstructing the investigation.
    Stepheny Price , Julia Bonavita , Sophia Compton, FOXNews.com, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Increasingly, the initiative has been seen as luring in low income countries with promises of lofty investment, but saddling them with unsustainable debts.
    Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 29 Aug. 2025
  • His strategy could bankrupt or diminish the fund, some legal scholars and public health leaders say, saddling pharmaceutical companies with liability risks and costs that would compel them to stop making vaccines altogether.
    Stephanie Armour, CNN Money, 18 Aug. 2025
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“Encumbering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/encumbering. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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