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
Ice storm warnings are in effect until 3 p.m. Saturday in eastern Iowa where up to 0.30 inches of ice could weigh down trees and power lines leading to sporadic power outages, as well as icy roads.
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Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 14 Dec. 2024
But even Johnson, on recent evidence, looks weighed down by Spurs’ struggles.
—Jack Pitt-Brooke, The Athletic, 13 Dec. 2024
This can improve balance but also drastically increases matchmaking times, and is something that weighs down games like Overwatch 2.
—Echo Apsey, Rolling Stone, 11 Dec. 2024
If the aim is to sharpen them into leaner and more effective tools of governance, the public could benefit from the remaking of a system that has long been weighed down with bureaucratic flab.
—Simon Shuster, TIME, 21 Nov. 2024
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Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 14 Dec. 2024
But even Johnson, on recent evidence, looks weighed down by Spurs’ struggles.
—Jack Pitt-Brooke, The Athletic, 13 Dec. 2024
This can improve balance but also drastically increases matchmaking times, and is something that weighs down games like Overwatch 2.
—Echo Apsey, Rolling Stone, 11 Dec. 2024
If the aim is to sharpen them into leaner and more effective tools of governance, the public could benefit from the remaking of a system that has long been weighed down with bureaucratic flab.
—Simon Shuster, TIME, 21 Nov. 2024
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When the state House went into recess Tuesday, Jones got down on one knee and asked Scott to marry him.Jo Yurcaba, NBC News, 15 Jan. 2025
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As the new legislative session commenced on Tuesday, Jan. 14, Jones, one of the first Black gay men to serve in the Texas legislature, got down on one knee and proposed to his longtime partner, Gregory Scott Jr., just after being sworn in at the State Capitol in Austin.Rachel Raposas, People.com, 14 Jan. 2025
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There is growing evidence, for example, that credit scores depressed by medical debt can threaten people’s access to housing and drive homelessness.Noam N. Levey, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2025
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Her big personality is, at first, a distraction technique, to keep the girls from letting poverty depress them.Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2024
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His speech also calls for expanding a low-income fare program that is now available only to Metra riders as a way to offset the fare hikes for riders who might be burdened by them.Sarah Freishtat, Chicago Tribune, 15 Jan. 2025
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The issue of fire department spending, boring and burdened with specifics in normal times, is now a critical issue in Los Angeles following the massive destruction caused by a wildfire in Pacific Palisades, which continues to burn.David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2025
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Scientists who study the vaccines are deeply troubled by these statements.Will Stone, NPR, 16 Jan. 2025
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Roosevelt was deeply troubled by the rise of autocracy in Germany and felt that economic hardship had contributed to the demise of constitutional democracies.Katherine Tai, Foreign Affairs, 9 Jan. 2025
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The glorious few who still worry about the decline of Palm Beach society speculated wildly that Trump was planning to legalize gambling and build a casino, or — the truly frightening possibility — subdivide his acreage and sell houses.Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2025
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Tech sell-off Stocks fell on Tuesday as investors worried about economic data and tech names tumbled.Michele Luhn, CNBC, 8 Jan. 2025
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Antetokounmpo dominated the game as a facilitator, torturing the Spurs’ help defenders with his passing, tallying eight assists to go along with his 25 points and 16 rebounds.Eric Nehm, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
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During the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos, who ruled the Philippines from 1972 to 1986, the United States trained and funded a Philippine army that tortured, jailed, and disappeared thousands of dissidents.Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
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The organization championed self-determination and economic independence for Black people at a time when Jim Crow laws oppressed African Americans and colonization subjugated Africans on their own continent.Tesfaye Negussie, ABC News, 24 Dec. 2024
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President Joe Biden recently announced the establishment of a new national monument acknowledging the history of the residential school system, which oppressed thousands of Indigenous children and their families during the course of more than 150 years.Karen K. Ho, ARTnews.com, 12 Dec. 2024
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