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burdened

adjective as in weighed down

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Courts overseeing such matters in Colorado are particularly burdened because more than 75% of litigants in family-law cases don’t have lawyers, she added.

A group of young conservative MPs revolted over a pension reform proposal, which had already been adopted by the cabinet, arguing that it burdened future generations.

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The opportunity for Mamdani, however, is that he is not burdened by his past, which his political opponents unsuccessfully tried to wield against him during the campaign.

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"Everybody just feels very, very burdened these days."

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But the deal left the company heavily burdened with debt.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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