as in to get down
to make sad
all these tragedies occurring simultaneously are weighing me down
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Recent Examples of weigh down
The four-layer gauze construction—made with 100% Turkish cotton—is fluffy without weighing down your bedscape.
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Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 4 Mar. 2026
Crucially, this year’s confab will also tackle the challenges weighing down the South African industry, where an ongoing crisis with the host country’s rebate system has sparked protests and pushed many local filmmakers to the brink.
—Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 2 Mar. 2026
Beyond that, their payroll was weighed down under Wilson’s cap number.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 28 Feb. 2026
Several shoppers with especially fine hair rave about how the spray doesn’t weigh down their fine strands as many other hair care products do.
—Claire West, Parents, 26 Feb. 2026
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Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 4 Mar. 2026
Crucially, this year’s confab will also tackle the challenges weighing down the South African industry, where an ongoing crisis with the host country’s rebate system has sparked protests and pushed many local filmmakers to the brink.
—Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 2 Mar. 2026
Beyond that, their payroll was weighed down under Wilson’s cap number.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 28 Feb. 2026
Several shoppers with especially fine hair rave about how the spray doesn’t weigh down their fine strands as many other hair care products do.
—Claire West, Parents, 26 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for weigh down
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In one call released by police, a woman can be heard amid a clamor of shouting repeatedly yelling for people to get down.—
Emiliano Tahui Gómez,
Austin American Statesman,
8 Mar. 2026
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The family moved from their home on the 50th floor of a building to a ground floor rental unit during the crisis out of concern about the safety of getting down from a high floor if needed.—
Alan Gionet,
CBS News,
4 Mar. 2026
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Unable to raise budgets as fast as populations, some cities slowed or stalled new development, rather than depress services to existing taxpayers.—
Mark Dee
March 6,
Idaho Statesman,
7 Mar. 2026
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Because the Zagros Mountains depress the crust in a narrow and shallow region, the Gulf is only 110 meters deep and 340 km wide at most.—
Stephanie Pappas,
Scientific American,
6 Mar. 2026
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Committee members were split on proposals to close schools — divided between the belief that campuses with few students burden staff and provide limited resources, and the worry that combining small schools will create overcrowding, split communities and harm students.—
Molly Gibbs,
Mercury News,
4 Mar. 2026
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With potential property tax cuts on the horizon, Palm Beach County officials are considering creative new sources of revenue that won’t burden taxpayers.—
Abigail Hasebroock,
Sun Sentinel,
4 Mar. 2026
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What troubles many Americans today is not simply the possibility of conflict, but the sense that conclusions are being announced without the underlying proof being publicly tested.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Mar. 2026
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The forecast troubled some on the council, who peppered staff with requests for more information on how to fix the city’s financial future and expressed their anxiety over the impending budget hole.—
Luis Melecio-Zambrano,
Mercury News,
4 Mar. 2026
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Some Republicans are worried about Paxton’s chances in a general election as the GOP tries to keep control of the Senate in November, and worry that money will need to be spent in Texas that could otherwise go toward winning battleground states, according to Politico.—
Eleanor Dearman,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
4 Mar. 2026
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But don’t worry, by the time they’re gone, there’ll be another new treat to try.—
Melinda Salchert,
Southern Living,
4 Mar. 2026
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The former soldier also said Haitian police mentally and physically tortured the Colombian suspects after they were taken into custody.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
9 Mar. 2026
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For 47 years, Iranians have been subject to a regime that seeks to divide them, isolate them, oppress them, torture them and dispose of them.—
Talla Mountjoy,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Mar. 2026
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Jesse Jackson was an ambassador of hope for the oppressed, who met with kings and queens and presidents and dictators and clergy of all the great religions.—
CBS Chicago Team,
CBS News,
6 Mar. 2026
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The authoritarian regime has brutally oppressed the people of Iran for generations.—
The Editorial Board,
Oc Register,
5 Mar. 2026
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