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This week Quentin Fottrell — aka The Moneyist — helped a reader who was bearing the main burden for caring for her mother, and having mixed feelings about it.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026

The nation’s largest private intercity rail operator has struggled with tepid ridership growth that failed to produce the revenue needed to service its heavy debt burden.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

In other cases, AI is reducing the burden of paperwork facing frontline health and support staff.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

"Caffeine is neither 'good' nor 'bad'. It is a biologically active substance whose effects depend on dose, time of day, age, lifestyle, sleep quality, stress burden, and individual sensitivity," the expert concludes.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

Once the property was seized, the owner had no right of counsel, and the burden was placed on him to prove the property’s “innocence.”

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

The federal district court issued a preliminary injunction partly on this basis, noting the burdens on election administrators were high and the public interest costs dire.

From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2026

Washington has framed its host year around limiting regulatory burdens and promoting new technologies.

From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026

For years, we’ve been promised proactive AI that eases our burdens, rather than reactive AI that just waits for our prompts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

But despite his loved ones’ flaws—and the burdens they heave on him—Waldrop refuses to condemn them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

Then shouldering their burdens, they set off, seeking a path that would bring them over the grey hills of the Emyn Muil, and down into the Land of Shadow.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

"Any initiative that strengthens Ukraine's already highly capable, but heavily burdened, cyber defence efforts is a welcome development and could provide a valuable force multiplier," he said.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

The trade war also can be expected to hit U.S. consumers already burdened by higher prices.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

Perhaps to their point, you aren’t burdened by your own children — don’t allow yourself to be burdened by theirs.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026

Convery has nicely feathered hair and a character burdened by the plot’s corniest contrivances: a bully stubbornly pursuing him to the literal end of civilization, a lost pet dog that he’s determined to rescue.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

He was bright as hell, and full of lore, but he wasn’t burdened down with any of the cumbersome luggage of a too formal education.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger

But it has raised concerns about burdening Louisiana electricity customers with the higher costs of additional energy infrastructure, especially if demand from Meta eventually dries up, The Wall Street Journal previously reported.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026

“A life-insurance policy can be specifically purchased to provide a cash payout to the non-business child, effectively equalizing their inheritance without burdening the business or the child taking it over,” it says.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 6, 2026

Germany is facing a perfect storm: high energy costs burdening manufacturers, weak demand for its exports in key markets, the emergence of China as an industrial rival and the US tariff onslaught.

From Barron's ● Dec. 2, 2025

Yoder built on that newer precedent in holding that laws substantially burdening religious exercise must be strictly scrutinized by the courts.

From Slate ● Jul. 1, 2025

No reason for burdening her with the truth.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes