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
Ice storm warnings are in effect until 3 p.m. Saturday in eastern Iowa where up to 0.30 inches of ice could weigh down trees and power lines leading to sporadic power outages, as well as icy roads.
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Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 14 Dec. 2024
But even Johnson, on recent evidence, looks weighed down by Spurs’ struggles.
—Jack Pitt-Brooke, The Athletic, 13 Dec. 2024
This can improve balance but also drastically increases matchmaking times, and is something that weighs down games like Overwatch 2.
—Echo Apsey, Rolling Stone, 11 Dec. 2024
If the aim is to sharpen them into leaner and more effective tools of governance, the public could benefit from the remaking of a system that has long been weighed down with bureaucratic flab.
—Simon Shuster, TIME, 21 Nov. 2024
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Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 14 Dec. 2024
But even Johnson, on recent evidence, looks weighed down by Spurs’ struggles.
—Jack Pitt-Brooke, The Athletic, 13 Dec. 2024
This can improve balance but also drastically increases matchmaking times, and is something that weighs down games like Overwatch 2.
—Echo Apsey, Rolling Stone, 11 Dec. 2024
If the aim is to sharpen them into leaner and more effective tools of governance, the public could benefit from the remaking of a system that has long been weighed down with bureaucratic flab.
—Simon Shuster, TIME, 21 Nov. 2024
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There might have been some scar tissue as well for Taylor considering that the Bengals lost a game to Baltimore in Week 5 when a snap and hold couldn’t get down in overtime on a McPherson game-winning attempt.Paul Dehner Jr., The Athletic, 28 Dec. 2024
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The reason is that Mars, your planetary ruler, is retrograde and exhausting your ability to get down and boogie 24/7.Lisa Stardust, refinery29.com, 26 Dec. 2024
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There is growing evidence, for example, that credit scores depressed by medical debt can threaten people’s access to housing and drive homelessness.Noam N. Levey, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2025
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Her big personality is, at first, a distraction technique, to keep the girls from letting poverty depress them.Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2024
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In one instance, the company approved a loan for a family already burdened with 33 debts in collection, leading to loan delinquencies just eight months after approval.Matthew Impelli, Newsweek, 6 Jan. 2025
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Our tax policies burden families and drive businesses to less taxing locales (hello, Virginia).Matt Morgan, Baltimore Sun, 5 Jan. 2025
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To be sure, his presidency was deeply troubled by high inflation, gas lines and the Iran hostage crisis, but he is increasingly seen more favorably by historians as having accomplished some far-reaching achievements.Storer H. Rowley, Chicago Tribune, 5 Jan. 2025
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Yet even with the labels, many are troubled by the potential risks: using deepfakes and artificial chatbots as a source of disinformation, relationship deceit, fraud...or worse.Chris Westfall, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
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Offer Comfort After experiencing a disaster, whether firsthand or through media images, kids tend to worry about their family's safety or fear that the event will happen again.Tamekia Reece, Parents, 8 Jan. 2025
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Others are downbeat and worry that utter obliteration could be afoot.Lance Eliot, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
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Overseas, the overthrow of the shah in the Iranian Revolution and rise of Ayatollah Khomeini tortured Carter with 52 Americans held hostage for exactly 444 days, until Iran released the captives moments after Carter’s successor Ronald Reagan was inaugurated.New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 30 Dec. 2024
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According to New York statutes, first-degree murder charges are reserved for murders that include certain aggravating factors, such as if the victim was a police officer or other similar official or if the victim was tortured.Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2024
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The organization championed self-determination and economic independence for Black people at a time when Jim Crow laws oppressed African Americans and colonization subjugated Africans on their own continent.Tesfaye Negussie, ABC News, 24 Dec. 2024
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President Joe Biden recently announced the establishment of a new national monument acknowledging the history of the residential school system, which oppressed thousands of Indigenous children and their families during the course of more than 150 years.Karen K. Ho, ARTnews.com, 12 Dec. 2024
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