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burden

[bur-dn] / ˈbɜr dn /




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His simulations found eight produced slightly better outcomes, but he concluded the difference didn’t justify the burden of extra meetings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

Liverpool committed a huge amount of money to Mohamed Salah's last contract and that turned out to be a heavy financial burden.

From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2026

People mostly experience care as a personal individual responsibility or burden, and they feel alone.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 13, 2026

Addressing residents, staff and volunteers in Spanish, Leo said disabled people were "not a burden on society" but "a blessing."

From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2026

“There is always a price. And when you don’t know what it is up front, then you must be prepared for it to be too heavy a burden when they come for you.”

From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh

She said many customers arrive carrying emotional burdens they have struggled to process elsewhere.

From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026

As such, we typically have to follow the laws with uneven burdens, so long as the law is “neutral,” “generally applicable,” and rationally related to a legitimate government interest.

From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2026

But much of the hope around the vaccine is that it will work in cancers with lower mutational burdens.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026

“Wicker” also spends a fair amount of time with the husbands to show how much pressure they feel at home too, light as their burdens often seem.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

The burdens of being “the first” didn’t fall only on our family’s shoulders.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

The syrupy strings, treacly piano and awed choral vocals conjure an atmosphere of strained enchantment, suggesting a film burdened by fatal amounts of whimsy and emotional manipulation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

Our critic wrote that the film “has a gradually mounting force in its depiction of class differences and a patriarch burdened by an agonizing sense of failure.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

By uncovering this hidden complexity, scientists hope to improve disease detection, develop more reliable treatments, and reduce the crop losses that have long burdened mushroom producers.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

"Any initiative that strengthens Ukraine's already highly capable, but heavily burdened, cyber defence efforts is a welcome development and could provide a valuable force multiplier," he said.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

She looked more like a tired, heavily burdened woman.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall

While an artist should avoid burdening themselves with hypothetical responses to their work before it’s even out in the world, considering the eventual reaction is worthwhile.

From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2026

But others say Seoul has few realistic options for retaliation without further burdening border residents already exposed to disruption and danger.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

Executives have vowed to steer clear of fixed-price development contracts that risk burdening the company with especially steep costs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

That faced some controversy from the community who argued the city was erasing their history and burdening them with the cost to change stationery.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2026

No reason for burdening her with the truth.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes


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