freighted

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From there, the council freighted the policy with stipulations that made it difficult to actually satisfy.

From Slate • Mar. 25, 2026

Some elements of this year’s White House decor theme seem similarly freighted.

From Salon • Dec. 11, 2025

The latest numbers were slightly improved from a previous reading freighted by government shutdown disruptions, but barely.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 8, 2025

Kevan Harris, an associate professor of sociology at UCLA, said that any U.S. involvement in a military conflict with Iran is freighted with meaning, and has long been the subject of hand-wringing.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 22, 2025

Barringer believed that the crater had been formed by a ten-million-ton meteor, heavily freighted with iron and nickel, and it was his confident expectation that he would make a fortune digging it out.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson