burdened
Example Sentences
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Many among them, however, are burdened by student or credit card debt, and only 1 in 4 have begun savings retirement accounts.
Yet, the phony look suits her — Glinda is burdened by being the happy face of the Wizard’s regime.
From Los Angeles Times
Twenty-seven percent of renters are severely burdened, spending more than 50% of their income on housing.
From Los Angeles Times
"Trinidad and Tobago continues to be burdened by the scourge of gun-related crimes and gang violence," it added.
From Barron's
Courts overseeing such matters in Colorado are particularly burdened because more than 75% of litigants in family-law cases don’t have lawyers, she added.
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