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
In fiscal 2025, Starbucks reported a 1% decline in same store sales in China, weighed down by 5% decrease in the average amount of money a customer spends per transaction.
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John Liu, CNN Money, 5 Nov. 2025
Republicans are hopeful that having a socialist in such a high-profile position could weigh down Democrats in key races both in the 2026 midterms and 2028 presidential elections.
—Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
The earnings represent a bounce back from the June quarter, which had been weighed down by a massive slump in Samsung’s chip business.
—Dylan Butts, CNBC, 30 Oct. 2025
Today, things are a bit different as soldiers become more and more weighed down with electronics that often seem to be more of a hindrance than a help.
—New Atlas, 26 Oct. 2025
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John Liu, CNN Money, 5 Nov. 2025
Republicans are hopeful that having a socialist in such a high-profile position could weigh down Democrats in key races both in the 2026 midterms and 2028 presidential elections.
—Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
The earnings represent a bounce back from the June quarter, which had been weighed down by a massive slump in Samsung’s chip business.
—Dylan Butts, CNBC, 30 Oct. 2025
Today, things are a bit different as soldiers become more and more weighed down with electronics that often seem to be more of a hindrance than a help.
—New Atlas, 26 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for weigh down
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Notably, Nussmeier got down on one knee earlier this year to propose to his girlfriend Ella Springfield.—
Luke Chinman,
PEOPLE,
7 Nov. 2025
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For the first, Lee got down on their knees to play electric guitar flat on a stool, like a steel guitar without any of the delicateness.—
Nina Corcoran,
Pitchfork,
6 Nov. 2025
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Merchants are seeing this wobbly job market help to depress consumer confidence.—
Jonathan Lansner,
Oc Register,
6 Nov. 2025
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This sounds like depressing stuff, and Mothertongue is not extremely upbeat.—
Jordan Mintzer,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Oct. 2025
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As Johnson County continues to lose its attainable housing stock, which refers to homes that are $300,000 or less, more residents are feeling burdened by the rising costs of living.—
Taylor O'Connor,
Kansas City Star,
7 Nov. 2025
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These supercities could absorb population growth without burdening existing urban centers while creating hundreds of thousands of jobs in construction, engineering and services.—
Zoltan Istvan,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Nov. 2025
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But people all over the country are increasingly troubled by our government’s lack of fairness and due process and want to do something about it.—
Air Mail,
Air Mail,
25 Oct. 2025
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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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Punk music and its spirit clearly worried the Soviet rulers.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Nov. 2025
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For voters worried about health-insurance coverage or the future of research in the United States, scientists, health-care workers, and public-health experts may have particular appeal right now, Shields told me.—
Katherine J. Wu,
The Atlantic,
7 Nov. 2025
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After female marches, which became iconic in the Belarusian revolution 2020, of course, the regime started to arrest women too and torture them too, the same as men.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Nov. 2025
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Daniel is just one of an unknown number of migrants who are currently being tortured on a near daily basis, somewhere in Libya’s Sahara Desert.—
Mick Krever,
CNN Money,
6 Nov. 2025
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When, in reality, not that all Jews have money, but the reality is, for 3000 years, white people who were male and female, had money and didn't have money, were being brutally oppressed.—
Armando Salguero OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
7 Nov. 2025
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Our systems were built to oppress people of color.—
The Editorial Board,
Oc Register,
19 Oct. 2025
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