as in got down
to make sad
all these tragedies occurring simultaneously are weighing me down
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Recent Examples of weighed down
But when weighed down by the moisture, the grass flops over and doesn't present itself as well to the cutting blade.
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David Beaulieu,
The Spruce,
23 June 2026
But the game has changed, Triolo said, now that policymakers are more wary about an economy weighed down by lackluster domestic demand, a sluggish job market, and eager for private tech companies to boost investment in computing infrastructure underpinning the country's AI ambitions.
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Anniek Bao,
CNBC,
22 June 2026
Griffith’s own work looks stiff and sentimental, weighed down with melodrama and grandiosity that may have seemed dated even in 1915.
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Vivian Yee,
New York Times,
20 June 2026
Because of the length and lack of thickness, my hair often lacks volume and is quickly weighed down shortly after styling.
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Jessie Quinn,
StyleCaster,
18 June 2026
This blunt cut by stylist Shaylee Blatz plays up thickness but doesn't look weighed down.
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Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
16 June 2026
For a merger already weighed down by debt and foreign interest concerns, that real money is a big deal.
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Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
15 June 2026
Still, the effort — weighed down by Sheets going 0-for-5 with three strikeouts as the cleanup hitter — ended with the Padres still looking for their first back-to-back wins since May 22-23.
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Jeff Sanders,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 June 2026
Resale values are weighed down by the availability of public charging stations, fears of running out of juice on the road and concerns about how long the costly batteries will last.
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Bloomberg,
Oc Register,
8 June 2026
David Beaulieu,
The Spruce,
23 June 2026
But the game has changed, Triolo said, now that policymakers are more wary about an economy weighed down by lackluster domestic demand, a sluggish job market, and eager for private tech companies to boost investment in computing infrastructure underpinning the country's AI ambitions.
—
Anniek Bao,
CNBC,
22 June 2026
Griffith’s own work looks stiff and sentimental, weighed down with melodrama and grandiosity that may have seemed dated even in 1915.
—
Vivian Yee,
New York Times,
20 June 2026
Because of the length and lack of thickness, my hair often lacks volume and is quickly weighed down shortly after styling.
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Jessie Quinn,
StyleCaster,
18 June 2026
This blunt cut by stylist Shaylee Blatz plays up thickness but doesn't look weighed down.
—
Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
16 June 2026
For a merger already weighed down by debt and foreign interest concerns, that real money is a big deal.
—
Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
15 June 2026
Still, the effort — weighed down by Sheets going 0-for-5 with three strikeouts as the cleanup hitter — ended with the Padres still looking for their first back-to-back wins since May 22-23.
—
Jeff Sanders,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 June 2026
Resale values are weighed down by the availability of public charging stations, fears of running out of juice on the road and concerns about how long the costly batteries will last.
—
Bloomberg,
Oc Register,
8 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for weighed down
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Will Ferrell got down to his skivvies for a new SKIMS ad, in which the funnyman bares not all, but aplenty.
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Harry Styles got down on one knee to propose to Zoë Kravitz, eight months after the pair were initially spotted together in public, and the actress sported the rock while out and about in New York City.
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Rising costs of components, supply chain constraints, and weaker consumer demand that are all partly linked to the Iran war have depressed smartphone sales in much of the continent, resulting in the slowest growth of shipments to Africa in two years, research firm Omdia said.
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Two Democrats at the top would have depressed Republican turnout for other key races — especially for Congress — in the fall.
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For in the last years of her life she will be troubled by terrible digestion and chronic bowel problems set off by a bout of grave illness, diagnosed as typhoid fever and gall-bladder disease, in the autumn of 1860.
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Since a tiny drone hit the Kremlin in May 2023, Moscow’s skyline has been troubled by Ukraine, even causing last month’s Victory Day parade to be scaled back dramatically.
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Pluverge, an ice cream maker at Taste the Tropics, came to the United States on asylum after he was kidnapped and tortured by gang members in his home country.
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This is just one in a sweaty dungeon of hundreds of TikTok videos that show women being stalked, grabbed, tortured, tossed to the ground, and handcuffed by scary masked soldiers.
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Shami, overwhelmed with grief, was taken to the maternity ward to be monitored, with doctors worried about her and the baby.
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OpenAI has worried that Elon Musk's company's initial rally and subsequent fall signals retail investors may have less interest in buying, the report said.
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Ryan Carson, the CEO of Untangle, which provides legal workflow software for divorce attorneys, said in a post on X he was saddened by Petersen’s opinion.
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Mahomes’ knee injury saddened him, however.
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Your structure sorts the whole world into two boxes, oppressor and oppressed.
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The album is both plea, polemic and protest, but its argument — that oppressed and working people deserve rights and dignity, and that those things have historically been won through rebellion and revolution — is hardly radical.
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Manco only reluctantly starts carrying a gun after his first robbery, concerned that doing so would only lead to more violence.
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Forecasters are concerned with the possibility of heavy rainfall that could lead to flash flooding in northern Arkansas Friday night into Saturday, according to a briefing from the National Weather Service.
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