as in to get down
to make sad
all these tragedies occurring simultaneously are weighing me down
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Recent Examples of weigh down
The formula features Virtue's signature alpha keratin protein, which staves off breakage, boosts volume, and moisturizes without weighing down hair.
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Annie Blackman, Allure, 14 Feb. 2025
Joe Cardinale, now retired from the NYPD, told Fox News Digital DOGE's scrutiny of the federal budget, which includes grants for police departments through the Department of Justice, could be a welcome relief for law enforcement agencies weighed down by lawmakers' heavy oversight.
—Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 12 Feb. 2025
The system demands that voters, already weighed down by electoral fatigue and apathy, return to the polls for runoff elections.
—Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2025
An aspect of déjà vu weighs down these expressions of Black resistance, trapped in the box of the camera frame.
—Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
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Annie Blackman, Allure, 14 Feb. 2025
Joe Cardinale, now retired from the NYPD, told Fox News Digital DOGE's scrutiny of the federal budget, which includes grants for police departments through the Department of Justice, could be a welcome relief for law enforcement agencies weighed down by lawmakers' heavy oversight.
—Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 12 Feb. 2025
The system demands that voters, already weighed down by electoral fatigue and apathy, return to the polls for runoff elections.
—Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2025
An aspect of déjà vu weighs down these expressions of Black resistance, trapped in the box of the camera frame.
—Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for weigh down
Verb
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The two got down to business with glam before the show.—
Michelle Lee,
People.com,
24 Feb. 2025
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There’s no need to get down in the dumps about this scenario of rising food prices and widespread food waste.—
Karla Walsh,
Better Homes & Gardens,
22 Feb. 2025
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In February, the Yale University Budget Lab estimated that the Canadian and Mexican tariffs could depress average U.S. incomes by $1,170 to $1,245 a year.—
Josh Boak,
Chicago Tribune,
24 Feb. 2025
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The first four were not renewed, while the last two depressed the financial market for the sport, helping to place it in this ESPN conundrum.—
Andrew Marchand,
The Athletic,
21 Feb. 2025
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Unlike Seeger, Baez was not burdened with the baggage from a romance with American communism in the 1930s.—
Thomas Doherty,
The Hollywood Reporter,
19 Feb. 2025
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In San Diego, the taxpayers will be burdened with the hiring and firing of additional workers, workers’ compensation insurance costs, and long-term pension and retirement benefit costs for the 130 new city employees.—
U T Readers,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
14 Feb. 2025
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The list of priorities and possible cuts has troubled some on Capitol Hill who could see their own priorities come to an end.—
Tom Bowman,
NPR,
20 Feb. 2025
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The painting wraps around the gallery, engulfing the viewer while sections of the painting are interrupted and tied together by mesh fabric, troubling the boundary between painting and tapestry.—
Harrison Jacobs,
ARTnews.com,
10 Feb. 2025
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Book was worried when her sister first told her of her relationship with Holder, explaining that Pike had allegedly been verbally and physically abused in some of her past relationships.—
PJ Green,
Kansas City Star,
25 Feb. 2025
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Don't worry; all these dates and figures may seem complicated.—
David Rae,
Forbes,
25 Feb. 2025
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Caro Quintero and others then allegedly sought revenge, kidnapping Salazar and torturing him, before killing him.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
28 Feb. 2025
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Rami’s unhappy family splinters over love and politics; an opponent of both the monarchy and Saddam Hussein in the 1950s and 1960s, Rami is imprisoned and tortured, eventually escaping to gain asylum in France.—
Lisa Anderson,
Foreign Affairs,
25 Feb. 2025
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My piece is about all of the bills being passed to oppress the identities of people who don’t fit into society’s idea of men and women, let alone people outside the gender binary.—
The Learning Network,
New York Times,
16 Jan. 2025
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In this sense, the Mormon leader purports to advance both the formal law of the land on Utah Territory and more elemental notions of justice — even while simultaneously playing the role of both oppressor and oppressed.—
Michael M. Rosen,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
7 Feb. 2025
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