encumbrance
Example Sentences
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“Debt is a long-term obligation and an encumbrance on people’s finances.”
From MarketWatch • Jan. 14, 2026
That's why they've now assigned a receiver in order to prevent the transfer, sale or encumbrance of any of those assets.
From Salon • Nov. 6, 2023
He learned to walk again — but only, he wrote, with “15 pounds of leather and steel strapped to my legs,” an encumbrance he would carry for the next four decades.
From New York Times • Oct. 11, 2022
OK — but as a semi-monkish man of routine, what he wanted was domesticity without encumbrance.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2021
She would awaken as healthy as she was now but without the encumbrance she bore within.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
Vocabulary lists containing encumbrance
A Separate Peace
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