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burden

[bur-dn] / ˈbɜr dn /




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But immunotherapies don’t do as well against cancers with a lower mutational burden like pancreatic cancer, and they aren’t prescribed for people with cancer in the earliest stages of the disease.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026

To ease the burden on homeowners, the city offered a one-time 40% tax rebate for next year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

"The disruptions in sleep and cortical EEG activity that occur at 6 months, when plaques first emerge, did not worsen by 18 months, despite more than double the amount of plaque burden."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026

Case said the settlement is not an admission of liability or wrongdoing, but rather a means to “avoid the burden, expense, and uncertainty of continued litigation.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 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

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

A government spokesperson said that "while AI can help employers manage large volumes of applications and reduce administrative burdens, it is vital that recruitment processes remain fair, transparent and accessible".

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

Transparency activist Anjali Bhardwaj said the process disproportionately burdens marginalised voters who often struggle to produce documents.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

But the feeling was that the city was beginning to buckle under its burdens.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee

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

"For me, it's a sad feeling, because a place burdened by history is being built over, sacrificed to the economy," Erich Strobl, head of a local campaign to preserve part of the site, told AFP.

From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026

Such heaviness of spirit as there was, pressed not on her but on us, her parents, and of us Nathan was the most burdened.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya

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

According to City Journal, data centers generate nearly half of the county’s tax revenue, often without burdening residents.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 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

“A life-insurance policy can be specifically purchased to provide a cash payout to the non-business child, effectively equalizing their inheritance without burdening the business or the child taking it over,” it says.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 6, 2026

No reason for burdening her with the truth.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes


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