burdened

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In my recipe, I haven’t used as many egg yolks as they do at the restaurant because I don’t want you to be burdened with leftover egg whites.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

Eventually, though, most people become grateful for that fact — or at least less burdened by it.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 19, 2026

Often burdened by debts and crop failure, more than 3,090 farmers killed themselves in Maharashtra between 2022 and 2024.

From Barron's • Feb. 18, 2026

The ensemble-cum-chorus, burdened with overblown asylum imagery, is sometimes called upon to inject a circus-like atmosphere, complete with acrobatics.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2026

A member of Parliament, arguing against the stamp tax, said that the colonists, who had no representatives in Parliament, were being burdened with a tax they had not voted on.

From "George Washington, Spymaster" by Thomas B. Allen