- present tense form of burden (3rd person singular).
burdens
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Also contributing is quarter-end and year-end tax-loss selling — unloading the worst-performing stocks to lower capital-gains burdens — from mutual funds and individual investors.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
Transparency activist Anjali Bhardwaj said the process disproportionately burdens marginalised voters who often struggle to produce documents.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
“The burdens of war and occupation had created a dense web of resentments and suspicions, of grudges and animosities, that did not simply fade away when the fighting ended.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
It increases burdens on the patient, physician, and the entire healthcare system.
From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2026
Morning and dusk and morning again I watched them trailing up to a hole in the peak of the roof, carrying their tiny burdens out into the light.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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