burden
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The Global Burden of Disease, the world’s leading mortality database, finds that Europe’s standardized heat-death risk has changed only marginally since 1990.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026
Around the world, more than 1 million amputations occur every year due to diabetes-related vascular disease, traumatic injuries, infections, and cancer, according to Global Burden of Disease statistics.
From Science Daily • May 9, 2026
“I had hoped for this,” said Belle Burden, the author of “Strangers,” which details the collapse of her marriage to a hedge-fund manager.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
Burden internalized this pattern, of foregrounding the importance of the paterfamilias at the expense of real intimacy, of keeping up appearances despite the private pain.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2026
And between the ridge and Burden Hill he is still in it.
From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien
Vocabulary lists containing burden
"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act I
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