drag
Example Sentences
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“We must tackle the issue of burdensome fines, fees and assessments that disproportionately drag low-income individuals deeper into debt and away from full participation in their communities,” Newsom wrote at the time.
From Los Angeles Times
The selloff in copper and precious-metals futures dragged down shares in Arizona mining firms, the world’s largest gold producer and a silver company with assets stretching from Alaska to Quebec.
Japan could also be dragged in by China’s wartime decisions.
Then, Sanders criticized members of Congress for dragging their feet on AI legislation.
From Barron's
“You’d see the enthusiastic eighth-grader dragging the skeptical parents” to open house events years ago, said Tom Hickey, the superintendent of South Shore Regional Vocational Technical High School.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
