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burdened

adjective as in weighed down

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But the deal left the company heavily burdened with debt.

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The Israel Philharmonic, founded as the Palestine Symphony Orchestra in 1936, has always been burdened with a weight unique to it.

I feel like a vessel for a soul rather than a corpus burdened by physics and gravity.

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Volkswagen, burdened with massive electrification costs, helped spur the reckoning in Europe when it said it would cut 35,000 jobs as part of a deal with its union.

Its ability to fight back, however, is burdened partisan politics and its own history.

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