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He points to the hassles of regulatory compliance and warding off hacks as an unnecessary encumbrance on businesses.
VERY GOOD SECURITY RAISES $60 MILLION TO MAKE DATA FORCE FIELDS FOR DOORDASH, BREXRHHACKETTFORTUNEDECEMBER 21, 2020FORTUNE
Dangerfield was no longer conscious of anything but an angry determination to revolt, to be free of all encumbrance.
THE WOMAN GIVESOWEN JOHNSON
The cargo of the sloop hoisted on to the deck by the capstan, compact as he had made it, was an encumbrance.
TOILERS OF THE SEAVICTOR HUGO
So desperate had been the charge that our little craft was now actually a serious encumbrance to the monster.
THE ADVENTURES OF LOUIS DE ROUGEMONTLOUIS DE ROUGEMONT
An' sell Bruno; he's a vicious brute—nothin' but an encumbrance.
TWO LITTLE TRAVELLERSFRANCES BROWNE ARTHUR
They set to work together to remove the irons, and his legs were at length freed from this encumbrance at about five oclock.
THE CHRONICLES OF CRIME OR THE NEW NEWGATE CALENDAR. V. 1/2CAMDEN PELHAM
Whatever has nothing to do, whatever could go without being missed, is not ornament; it is deformity and encumbrance.
THE STONES OF VENICE, VOLUME I (OF 3)JOHN RUSKIN
It was to be a steep, almost straight-up climb, so Jack laid down his rifle and started without encumbrance of any kind.
BLACKFEET TALES OF GLACIER NATIONAL PARKJAMES WILLARD SCHULTZ
Within the following two years they paid off the entire indebtedness on the property, which was thus free from all encumbrance.
LYMAN'S HISTORY OF OLD WALLA WALLA COUNTY, VOL. 2 (OF 2)WILLIAM DENISON LYMAN
But the weight upon his head, the crushing encumbrance about his body, were too much for him, and bore him slowly downward.
KINGS IN EXILESIR CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS

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