burden
Example Sentences
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As of September, U.S. grocery prices had gone up by nearly 30.7% compared with September 2019, putting a particularly heavy burden on low-income households, who spend a larger share of their budgets on groceries.
From MarketWatch
In fact, people who earn a lot through their job – from doctors to executives – are carrying the largest burden, alongside lower-wage workers.
From Salon
The EU is also now working to lighten regulatory burdens that European companies say hurt their global competitiveness, although results aren’t yet clear.
Her contorted expression is rotted by anguish, as though life’s unbearable burdens have laid waste to their latest victim.
From Salon
But like many older Americans with little savings and heavy financial burdens, retirement was out of the question.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
