burden
Example Sentences
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If much of your retirement savings is held in tax-deferred accounts, larger withdrawals could increase your tax burden.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026
Newsom’s revised budget proposal, which was unveiled last month, would cut $367.7 million from the program and shift some of that financial burden onto counties.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026
But criticism is mounting from some member states, including Germany and Italy, as well as major firms that the ETS is an added burden at a time industry is already struggling.
From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026
Stokes, whose workload as an all-rounder is considerable, explained that the move down to number seven was partly to ease the burden on his shoulders.
From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026
Du Bois got it right a century ago: “the burden belongs to the nation, and the hands of none of us are clean if we bend not our energies to righting these great wrongs.”
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
Vocabulary lists containing burden
"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act I
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"The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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