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“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

The next sequels, I suspect, will give them more time for that, but may also encumber them with more baggage.

From New York Times ● Dec. 14, 2022

"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

“Are we going to encumber the writer, when we are here to serve the writer?”

From Washington Post ● Jul. 16, 2019

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

It will be encumbered neither by norms nor the exigencies that compel speech in a democratic society.

From Salon ● Mar. 10, 2026

He gets straight into it on his new record, on an opening track encumbered with the blindingly literal title, "Opening".

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2025

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

The Fowler, unlike its legally encumbered London counterparts, placed no conditions on the Asante returns.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2024

He came with speed and momentum, dazzling speed for a boy encumbered with the ball, and Jim Don moved out heavily, menacingly to stop Ben.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

Global competition and “innovation” have often been cited as reasons to avoid encumbering tech companies with regulation.

From Slate ● Dec. 28, 2023

Forbes reported on how the influx of returns has encumbering retailers since early 2021.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 28, 2022

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

Paintings and sculptures have been given without the encumbering restrictions sometimes demanded by private collectors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2020

We had no difficulty in climbing over the fallen blocks encumbering the entrance, and soon found ourselves fairly on the inside.

From Bert Wilson at Panama by Duffield, J. W.