weigh down

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Recent Examples of weigh down Nevertheless, setting high standards for parenting, even unrealistic ones, can bring some benefits—as long as the parent is not weighed down by self-doubt and criticism, Sirois found in her analysis. Francine Russo, Scientific American, 24 June 2025 Start with a small amount: Coconut oil may feel heavy or weigh down fine or straight hair. Cristina Mutchler, Verywell Health, 29 May 2025 The Dow was weighed down by Boeing (BA), which sank 4.79% after a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner carrying 242 people crashed in India on Thursday. John Towfighi, CNN Money, 12 June 2025 We are not yet weighed down by industry standardization, and that’s a powerful advantage. Marta Balaga, Variety, 10 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for weigh down
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  • On Friday, Biden walked slowly toward the dual coffins that flanked an urn containing Gilbert’s ashes, gazing for a long moment at the tableau before getting down on one knee in tribute.
    Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 30 June 2025
  • The couple has been planning their wedding for nearly two years, with the Amazon founder getting down on one knee and proposing to the Emmy-winning journalist during a summer vacation in Europe in May 2023.
    Virginia Chamlee, People.com, 27 June 2025
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  • This year brought two new adverse factors — President Donald Trump’s tariffs that could generate retaliatory tariffs, depressing export markets, and Trump’s sweeps of undocumented immigrants, who are a major portion of the agricultural labor force.
    Dan Walters, Mercury News, 25 June 2025
  • Most Fed officials are worried surging import taxes could depress growth while restarting what had been cooling inflation pressures.
    Michael S. Derby, USA Today, 24 June 2025
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  • As home values increase and affordability becomes less available, more families are burdened by the cost of housing.
    Taylor O’Connor, Kansas City Star, 2 July 2025
  • This operational complexity can burden IT teams while marketing waits for bespoke integrations to be re-engineered at each change request.
    Rafael Flores, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
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  • Elena Rybakina, the 2022 champion who has troubled her in the past is a potential fourth-round matchup.
    Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 5 July 2025
  • According to The Everything Store, the former couple's relationship was troubled from the start.
    Lynsey Eidell, People.com, 27 June 2025
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  • Concerns about student overuse and misuse are still prevalent: About half of teachers worry that student use of AI will decrease teens’ ability to think critically and independently or to have persistence when problem solving, according to the study.
    Jocelyn Gecker, Fortune, 25 June 2025
  • After studies had linked chronic exposure to high levels of mercury found in fish and whale blubber to developmental delays, scientists began to worry about the element’s effects on the young brain.
    Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 25 June 2025
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  • Nicolás Maduro and his enforcers are running a criminal narco-terrorist dictatorship that jails political opponents, tortures dissidents, and crushes any hope of free expression.
    Rachel Wolf, FOXNews.com, 27 June 2025
  • An immigration judge determined that he would likely be persecuted or tortured if deported to Guatemala again, and granted him an order protecting him from removal.
    Solcyré Burga, Time, 25 June 2025
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  • Her performances quickly gain in popularity, and Seti becomes a star for a young generation that no longer wants to be oppressed by the regime.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 25 June 2025
  • Its fight is with the regime, not with the Iranian people, who have been oppressed by the ayatollahs for almost half a century.
    Laurence Milstein, Sun Sentinel, 24 June 2025

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