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
Superbloom is another helping of polyester in an age of microplastics, weighed down by chintz and notably shorter on dazzle and wit.
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Harry Tafoya, Pitchfork, 20 Apr. 2026
Zillow’s outlook for 2026 changed drastically depending on how long high rates and unemployment weigh down the housing market.
—Tristan Bove, Fortune, 14 Apr. 2026
Sales also fell 1% compared with March last year, weighed down by declines in the Northeast and Midwest.
—ABC News, 13 Apr. 2026
But that trajectory could change now as the latest inflation report weighs down both lenders and borrowers.
—Matt Richardson, CBS News, 10 Apr. 2026
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Harry Tafoya, Pitchfork, 20 Apr. 2026
Zillow’s outlook for 2026 changed drastically depending on how long high rates and unemployment weigh down the housing market.
—Tristan Bove, Fortune, 14 Apr. 2026
Sales also fell 1% compared with March last year, weighed down by declines in the Northeast and Midwest.
—ABC News, 13 Apr. 2026
But that trajectory could change now as the latest inflation report weighs down both lenders and borrowers.
—Matt Richardson, CBS News, 10 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for weigh down
Verb
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One local contractor later told me that a woman from Washington had called his business, urging him to get down to the scene with his excavator.—
Robin Romm,
The Atlantic,
2 May 2026
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See, teams like Jacob get down here and get off after it.—
Bo Evans,
CBS News,
1 May 2026
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With energy prices depressed at the start of the year, Exxon Mobil and Chevron had arranged hedges to offset volatility, a standard practice in the industry.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
1 May 2026
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At risk of depressing you, nothing.—
Steven Zeitchik,
HollywoodReporter,
27 Apr. 2026
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If these safeguards advance, why is the emphasis not on reforming underlying financing practices—including deferred interest and retroactive interest models—rather than further burdening providers who are attempting to offer patients a lawful payment pathway when traditional coverage fails them?—
Letters to the Editor,
Hartford Courant,
1 May 2026
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The proposal would burden doctors with giving parents a highly detailed consent statement to be prepared by boards of medicine and osteopathic medicine, and forbid health authorities to order vaccinations during outbreaks of familiar or new deadly diseases.—
Orlando Sentinel,
The Orlando Sentinel,
29 Apr. 2026
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Conservatives who care about limited government should be troubled by a federal law whose primary purpose is to prevent states from governing themselves.—
Jesse Plunkett,
The Orlando Sentinel,
2 May 2026
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We also are deeply troubled by the cancellation of the $11 million grant to Catholic Charities of Miami, which played a very important part with the resettlement of Syrian and Afghan refugees in Miami and elsewhere.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
29 Apr. 2026
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One perhaps shouldn’t worry too much about AI being prompted to resurrect a talk-show host, what with the whole format dying anyway.—
Steven Zeitchik,
HollywoodReporter,
6 May 2026
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Equally important, a chatbot does not worry about your wellbeing the way a doctor might—which is important, since the best healers combine technical skills with moral judgment and empathy.—
Sudheesha Perera,
Time,
6 May 2026
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In 1969 she was put in solitary confinement for 491 days and tortured.—
Kate Bartlett,
NPR,
2 May 2026
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Iranian American actor Anthony Azizi says the continuing Middle East conflict has sparked rising persecution of Iran’s Baha’i minority, including its members being jailed and tortured under the threat of execution.—
Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
1 May 2026
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People were oppressed in that time.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
30 Apr. 2026
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Communities endured the triple indignity of working on the statues and being both redressed and oppressed by those statues.—
Horace D. Ballard,
Artforum,
22 Apr. 2026
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“Weigh down.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/weigh%20down. Accessed 9 May. 2026.
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