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[bur-dn] / ˈbɜr dn /




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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




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