encumber

“Traditionally, these big changes are something that you grant to the next mayor because you don’t want to necessarily encumber them,” Matute said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

"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

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

The quote, from a 1944 opinion by Justice Felix Frankfurter in a tax case, is usually offered to mean that the court shouldn’t encumber itself by declaring solutions to problems that have yet to emerge.

From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2012

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

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

Long encumbered by a mouthful of metal, Zachary was told by his parents Friday that he could leave his fifth-grade class early because he had an orthodontist appointment to get his braces removed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2024

And she was too tired and too encumbered to move much anyway.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen

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

Personally, I blame the baggy white t-shirt Mickelson was wearing underneath his polo, the added weight encumbering his movement.

From Golf Digest ● Mar. 25, 2020

But would not branches of any considerable size have impeded progress, inconveniently encumbering the road?

From The Revision Revised by John William Burgon