burden
Example Sentences
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Saks has struggled financially since taking on the debt burden in 2024, and the luxury retail chain’s delays in paying vendors have contributed to weaker merchandise offerings—and sales.
At year’s end, investors sell their losers to lower their capital-gains tax burden — harvesting losses to offset gains.
From MarketWatch
“I remember asking him how he was doing, he had a lot of pressure and burden,” she recounted.
I also use medication, and like Beata I do not see it as a burden or a stigma.
From BBC
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
