saddle
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The Education Department says the changes are in part meant to address the ballooning costs of college, which can saddle graduates with huge debt loads that follow them well into their retirement years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
Investors aren’t bailing on the stock market, despite an ugly selloff in technology names this week that helped to saddle the S&P 500 with its worst weekly showing in months.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 17, 2026
The researchers identified a particularly important region of this mathematical landscape called the Cordey saddle.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026
But he was known to love every element of cycling and was always in the saddle.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
The mahogany coffin was trailed by Hamilton’s gray horse, with his boots and spurs reversed astride the empty saddle.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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He has the chance to change that as he saddles up with a familiar partner.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 9, 2025
That involves treating the surface of the ball with the same oil that’s used on horse saddles, then in succession leather balm, conditioner, mud, more conditioner, and a thorough brushing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2024
You could see details in saddles and costumes, and the building were still extant.
From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2024
On Saturday, Larry Demeritte will be just the second since 1951 and 17th overall when he saddles long shot West Saratoga.
From Seattle Times ● May 1, 2024
Men trot by on burros with tin milk containers strapped to their saddles, starting their morning deliveries.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
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She was a teenage girl suddenly saddled with the fate of a country, tasked with making decisions well beyond her purview or experience.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026
It is against this backdrop that Moyes seeks to end Everton's 31-year search for success that has saddled them with an unwanted record.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
Blackstone’s leveraged buyout saddled Jersey Mike’s with about $500 million in additional debt, bringing the total to $2.1 billion and boosting its annual interest expenses to $104 million in 2025 from $43 million in 2024.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
As Moscow presses along several fronts, Ukrainian commanders complain they are increasingly being saddled with paperwork and struggling to effectively carry out orders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Ifemelu stared at him, saying little, refusing to be ensnared, and feeling strangely sorry for Kimberly To be saddled with a sister like Laura and a husband like this.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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The nightmare scenario of running over budget and saddling local taxpayers with debt hangs over the organizing committee.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
Oldfield says: "How do we shore the business up into a place that's right for them to come into without saddling them with a lot of debt?"
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
But his career collapsed abruptly within a few years when the party accused him of saddling Zibo with onerous debt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
What happens next may hit everyone who dreams of saddling a dragon squarely in the chest.
From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2026
Yet even as they were bundling him Outside, saddling the horses in the rain, and tying his hands with a length of coarse rope, Tyrion Lannister was not truly afraid.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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