SADDLING Synonyms: 38 Similar and Opposite Words

saddling

verb

present participle of saddle

as in loading

to place a weight or burden on to the social worker it seemed as though her supervisor had once again saddled her with a truly hopeless case

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Recent Examples of saddling The author could herself be considered predatorial, having written her own children in as the books’ protagonists, saddling them with a strange kind of fame. —

Literary Hub, 2 June 2026 Gas prices also remain elevated, saddling businesses and consumers with higher costs. —

ABC News, 23 Apr. 2026 Residents spent years criticizing the EPA’s research and felt the agency was unfairly saddling corporations that owned local mining operations with cleanup costs, news reports show. —

Chris Bowling, ProPublica, 15 Apr. 2026 The war in Iran, now in its third week, is causing oil prices to soar, saddling airlines with some of the highest fuel costs in years. —

Andrea Sachs The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 29 Mar. 2026 Through no fault of Newton’s, Faith functions less as a second protagonist than a prop to give Grace more emotional investment in the proceedings by saddling her with guilt over their estrangement or opportunities to nobly sacrifice herself. —

Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 14 Mar. 2026 Stick Cowan with Auston Matthews to see if there’s a possible fit there rather than saddling the captain with Max Domi again and again. —

James Mirtle, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2026 Audiences didn’t respond to it either, saddling it with a C+ CinemaScore, though the Audience Popcornmeter at Rotten Tomatoes was a bit more generous than the critics, a 73 percent versus the Tomatometer score of 59 percent. —

Brian Welk, IndieWire, 9 Mar. 2026 Nurses countered that top hospital executives make millions of dollars a year while saddling nurses with unmanageable workloads. —

Philip Marcelo, Fortune, 20 Feb. 2026

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On Friday, agents observed a man loading heavy items into a van outside the store and then driving to a nearby mechanic’s shop.

— Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2026
After loading the bases with no outs in the first inning Monday, two strikeouts followed.

— Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 May 2026