encumbering

Example Sentences

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Global competition and “innovation” have often been cited as reasons to avoid encumbering tech companies with regulation.

From Slate • Dec. 28, 2023

Forbes reported on how the influx of returns has encumbering retailers since early 2021.

From Washington Times • Jun. 28, 2022

This can be an offer to hold any encumbering items — though not, presumably, the cane.

From Washington Post • Sep. 21, 2021

Personally, I blame the baggy white t-shirt Mickelson was wearing underneath his polo, the added weight encumbering his movement.

From Golf Digest • Mar. 25, 2020

Daffodils peeped out their yellow faces from tufts of encumbering weeds; and stooping down, Rotha found an abundance of polyanthus scattered about among the other things, and periwinkle running wild.

From A Letter of Credit by Warner, Susan