encumber

A shark cannot sink the submarine alone, but it can certainly encumber it.

From Slate ● Nov. 20, 2023

"It was a time to really get to know one another with no outside influences to encumber you," Duffy told the outlet.

From Fox News ● Jul. 3, 2021

Since 2011, Fukushima has been saddled with the staggering burden of the meltdown’s aftermath that, despite government PR, will encumber and stigmatise its citizens for at least several decades.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 16, 2018

It would be even more difficult in the District, which pays from current appropriations and cannot encumber future appropriations under current legislation.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 16, 2016

A shocking number of phrases that drop easily from the fingers are bloated with words that encumber the reader without conveying any content.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

“That is expensive, not sustainable and encumbers future generations with further long-term liabilities,” Karsten Smid, an energy expert with the group’s German branch, said in a statement.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 26, 2024

By now we all know the basic data about college student loan debt—that it totals more than $1.7 trillion, encumbers around 40 million people at present, and cannot be absolved in bankruptcy.

From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2021

North Korea’s trade with China plunged more than 80% last year, Chinese customs data has shown, as the isolated country’s strict coronavirus lockdown encumbers an economy already burdened by international sanctions.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 19, 2021

He has said that he wears one when he’s concerned about being respectful, but that a jacket encumbers his political pugilism.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 10, 2020

It’s the way civilized man now encumbers his territory, not with great walls or stretches of wire but with a single well-placed device, a neat bundling with the workings of a mind.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee

Already in play is Manhattan Beach Studios, another Hackman Capital property encumbered by a $240-million loan from Deutsche Bank that the lender is in the process of selling.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2026

His house was encumbered with liens and he’d sold a “prop plane” that prosecutors cited when arguing he was a risk to abscond, Maitia said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2025

Two questions that have forever encumbered treatment of intellectual responsibility remain with us.

From Salon ● Nov. 24, 2024

Now with a second mandate and significantly less encumbered, America, and the world, will see what he can really do.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2024

“We do not want to be encumbered by these just now,” he said, pulling out his wand again.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

Global competition and “innovation” have often been cited as reasons to avoid encumbering tech companies with regulation.

From Slate ● Dec. 28, 2023

Forbes reported on how the influx of returns has encumbering retailers since early 2021.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 28, 2022

This can be an offer to hold any encumbering items — though not, presumably, the cane.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 21, 2021

None will likely feel the strain encumbering Matsuyama in the coming days.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2021

They afterwards came to the conclusion that the rescuing party got away successfully as there was no sign of his dead body encumbering the plain the next morning.

From The Indians' Last Fight Or The Dull Knife Raid by Collins, Dennis