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
Meanwhile, the property sector has entered its fifth year of crisis with sales and investment continuing to slump, dragging the economy and weighing down consumer confidence as well as spending.
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John Liu, CNN Money, 5 Mar. 2026
That harness helped weigh down the turtle’s back end in a way that didn’t cause damage to its shell.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 5 Mar. 2026
Often weighed down by this sense of all the characters lost along the way, the film tries to make up for it by unsubtly announcing which characters are whose substitutes.
—Miriam Balanescu, IndieWire, 5 Mar. 2026
The investors alleged that Musk, now the world’s richest person, engaged in a scheme to weigh down Twitter’s stock in order to pressure the board to sell to him for a lower price.
—Lora Kolodny, CNBC, 4 Mar. 2026
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John Liu, CNN Money, 5 Mar. 2026
That harness helped weigh down the turtle’s back end in a way that didn’t cause damage to its shell.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 5 Mar. 2026
Often weighed down by this sense of all the characters lost along the way, the film tries to make up for it by unsubtly announcing which characters are whose substitutes.
—Miriam Balanescu, IndieWire, 5 Mar. 2026
The investors alleged that Musk, now the world’s richest person, engaged in a scheme to weigh down Twitter’s stock in order to pressure the board to sell to him for a lower price.
—Lora Kolodny, CNBC, 4 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for weigh down
Verb
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Then the Bruins got down to business.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
21 Mar. 2026
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That’s not how this program gets down.—
Jordan Robinson,
SELF,
19 Mar. 2026
Verb
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At American firms, accent bias can quietly shape whose ideas gain traction at work by depressing attention and engagement for speakers with nonnative English accents.—
Aliah Zewail,
Harvard Business Review,
17 Mar. 2026
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Another tax change could depress giving by larger amounts.—
Jon Bergdoll,
The Conversation,
17 Mar. 2026
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Meanwhile, survivors who were homeless, unbanked, or too burdened by compounding challenges like disabilities or caregiving roles to apply for multiple types of assistance were falling through the cracks of public and private disaster programs, Huguenin said.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
18 Mar. 2026
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Polling suggests Californians support taxing corporations more to maintain the state’s social programs without burdening individual residents, who already face costs of living higher than most of the country.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
17 Mar. 2026
Verb
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After Daniil Medvedev’s comprehensive and belatedly controversial win over Jack Draper in their quarterfinal, Carlos Alcaraz came out to face Cameron Norrie, one of the few players outside of Jannik Sinner and Novak Djokovic who has troubled him the past few years.—
Ava Wallace,
New York Times,
13 Mar. 2026
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Each of the founders has been troubled with different sets of problems with their respective skin care expectations.—
Tianwei Zhang,
Footwear News,
10 Mar. 2026
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In the 19th, Grace Panetta studied the answers in another Navigator focus group, from young women worried about economic ups and downs.—
David Weigel,
semafor.com,
26 Mar. 2026
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But residents worry what's next amid heightened military presence.—
Eduardo Cuevas,
USA Today,
25 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Mark, who has seen his wife tortured by TV writers (or at least one in particular), doesn’t think Val owes writers anything.—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
23 Mar. 2026
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In response, the regime killed dozens, and arrested and tortured many more.—
Azadeh Moaveni,
New Yorker,
22 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Much of progressive ideological frameworks tend to divide the world into oppressors and oppressed.—
Arie Perliger,
The Conversation,
18 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,
Twin Cities,
11 Mar. 2026
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