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saddle

[sad-l] / ˈsæd l /
NOUN
seat on horse
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And some timberland owners, worried that planting could saddle their heirs with trees they won’t be able to sell, are rethinking the future.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

There’s also been concern that the borrowing blitz results in overbuilding that could saddle debt investors with big losses.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026

The delay could saddle Paramount, the smallest of the major media companies, with substantial legal fees and hundreds of millions of dollars in added deal costs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026

But he was due to return to the saddle in the Leger Legends race at Doncaster during the St Leger Festival in September.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

She herself would not have minded having a rocking horse, but a rocking horse was not a good gift for a baby who could not yet sit up in the saddle.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

In truth, it undermines program integrity, eliminates key consumer protections, forces consumers into choices that are not to their benefit and saddles states with higher costs.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026

He has the chance to change that as he saddles up with a familiar partner.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 9, 2025

You could see details in saddles and costumes, and the building were still extant.

From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2024

D. Wayne Lukas, the 88-year-old trainer with four derby wins, saddles Just Steel.

From Seattle Times ● May 4, 2024

Without waiting for an answer—and indeed they were too exhausted to speak—he took the bridles and saddles off both of them.

From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis

Even so, airlines themselves are furious that they have been saddled with a bill of millions of pounds.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

While that liability will now be off its books with a successful IPO, Shein said it was saddled with another bill: the roughly $3.5 billion it owed its early investors upon going public.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

Tuition that has outpaced inflation for decades has saddled students with high debt and yielded uneven returns on careers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

The disruption can interrupt care and leave people saddled with medical bills they cannot afford.

From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026

"But you don't get a company of two hundred horse and horsemen watered and victualed and armed and saddled and started all in a minute. Now: what's our direction? Due North?"

From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis

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

Jiang Duntao, a former Zibo, China, Communist Party official, was expelled and faces prosecution for saddling the city with onerous debt.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026

As a result, many resort to Medi-Cal, saddling the state with the healthcare costs instead of employers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 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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