burden
Example Sentences
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A spokesperson for Newsom said California is “aggressively pursuing widespread electrification” but would not burden survivors with “additional mandates and red tape.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2026
But they certainly add to the tax code’s complexity and the administrative burden on tax filers.
From Barron's • Apr. 17, 2026
It should, in theory, be a massive burden lifted from the global economy, which has suffered from the closure of a passage that’s supremely important for the global oil trade.
From Slate • Apr. 17, 2026
Beyond the burden the laws could place on people looking to register to vote, administrators say they need a longer runway to successfully stage elections and inform residents of policy changes.
From Salon • Apr. 16, 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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