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as in to burden
to place a weight or burden on
students complaining that their teachers were loading them with work
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as in to fill
to put into (something) as much as can be held or contained
she loaded her plate at the buffet with as much food as she could carry and with more than any sane person should eat
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as in loading
a mass or quantity of something taken up and carried, conveyed, or transported
hoisted a load of grain on the truck going to Florida
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as in ton
loads plural
a considerable amount
there's no rush, since we've got loads of time left
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Recent Examples of load
Moná Thomas,
PEOPLE,
25 June 2026
As the challenge loaded on the scoreboard, catcher Eric Haase signaled to third base, asking if Soderstrom went around.
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Justice Delos Santos,
Mercury News,
25 June 2026
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
24 June 2026
Stuff itself carries a cognitive load, too.
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Lauren Jarvis-Gibson,
Charlotte Observer,
24 June 2026
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Verb
At the base of the cake is a brownie loaded with Heath Bar pieces and semi-sweet chocolate chips, topped with a buttery Heath Bar streusel.
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Moná Thomas,
PEOPLE,
25 June 2026
As the challenge loaded on the scoreboard, catcher Eric Haase signaled to third base, asking if Soderstrom went around.
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Justice Delos Santos,
Mercury News,
25 June 2026
Noun
This elegant, compact false cypress selection brings loads of texture to the landscape with flat sprays of fern-like foliage.
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Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
24 June 2026
Stuff itself carries a cognitive load, too.
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Lauren Jarvis-Gibson,
Charlotte Observer,
24 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for load
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Critics argue the tax's ripple effects could burden all Californians.
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Overmyer-Velazquez pointed out that these warehouses and industrial plants often provide great benefits to the larger society, yet their effects only burden a select few.
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Combine gin, lime juice, syrup, Aperol and dry Curaçao in a shaker filled with ice.
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Parents are looking for activities that do more than fill the hours, and a good cooking class can hand a child real skills, real confidence and a few recipes worth making again at home.
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As a delivery truck backs up to the loading dock of a warehouse on a 1,000-acre apple farm in LaFayette, New York, a worker rolls up the door to the cargo area, revealing 35 three-foot-tall bags filled with 5,000 pounds of weed.
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Folding laundry, loading dishwashers, cleaning kitchens, and navigating cluttered homes require many of the same perception, manipulation, and reasoning capabilities that would eventually allow robots to operate independently on a battlefield.
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So far this year, 17 tons of illicit drugs, mostly cocaine, have been seized in the Pacific region – more than three times the total across the whole of last year, according to the Australian Federal Police.
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El Salvador President Nayib Bukele said 300 rescuers and paramedics, along with 50 tons of equipment, medicines and essential supplies, were ready to depart for Caracas.
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In other words, the metaphorical coin must be weighted—in this case, by hominins doing things on purpose, like laying their dead to rest in the narrow, twisting darkness of Rising Star.
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Asia’s defense investment is increasingly weighted to high-margin, technologically advanced systems and not just traditional military hardware.
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Volunteers with Georgia's Own Credit Union spent Tuesday packing 500 meal kits as part of MUST Ministries' Summer Lunch program.
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Either way, Aestura’s Atobarrier 365 Ceramide Cream Mist is an easy way to give quick hydration to dry, stressed skin, thanks to an ultrafine spray packed with ceramides.
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Based on the company's H145 platform, the aircraft replaces the cockpit with clamshell cargo doors, freeing up additional space for payloads.
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The future variant is expected to feature greater range, a larger payload, and expanded mission capabilities, including both air-defense and precision-strike roles.
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Sugar is at the forensic lab with the corpse of a man who looks an awful lot like Ji Moon but isn’t Ji Moon (courtesy of Shea Whigham as Tom Flybjerg).
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The tablets were labeled with more than two dozen lot numbers and expiration dates ranging from July 2026 to December 2028.
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“Load.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/load. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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