as in to get down
to make sad
that sort of news really bums me out
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The Eagles tied the game, however, the Chiefs had enough time to get down the field before kicker Harrison Butker booted a 27-yard field goal with eight seconds left.—
Lucia Suarez Sang,
CBS News,
9 Feb. 2025 -
Not to mention, getting down on your hands and knees to yank weeds out of the ground can be painful, and even more so for those dealing with chronic pain and conditions like arthritis.—
Brittney Morgan,
Better Homes & Gardens,
9 Feb. 2025
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Stimulus boost China has been striving to boost economic growth and has taken several measures towards this end, as a real estate slump and uncertainty about future income has continued to weigh down consumer spending and business confidence, adding to deflation concerns.—
Anniek Bao,Evelyn Cheng,
CNBC,
17 Jan. 2025
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Key Background Created in 2007, the PSLF was weighed down for years with criticism about delays in relief and issues with completing the program’s application.—
Ty Roush,
Forbes,
20 Dec. 2024
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Not every exhibitor is AMC or Cinemark, but the bill as written doesn’t differentiate; burdening smaller theaters with rules of this sort would likely drive your already high admission prices even higher.—
Eric Vilas-Boas,
Vulture,
4 Feb. 2025
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Some consumers have also complained that bulk billing arrangements can burden them with a single, subpar internet service that costs more.—
Michael Kan,
PCMAG,
27 Jan. 2025
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According to Dwyer, spongy moth outbreaks can even depress neighborhood house prices.—
Tribune News Service,
Hartford Courant,
23 Jan. 2025
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The fear depresses the neighborhood economy, as people work less and spend less.—
Ruben Vives,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Jan. 2025
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Mason and his colleagues were troubled by some of their findings.—
Dhruv Khullar,
The New Yorker,
10 Feb. 2025
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As an alum of the U.S. attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York, I am deeply troubled by reports that President Trump’s Justice Department may order the acting U.S. attorney to drop the pending charges against Mayor Adams.—
Nick Akerman,
New York Daily News,
6 Feb. 2025
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Economists have warned that a wide-scale trade war could significantly raise prices, and consumers appear to be worried as well.—
Lim Hui Jie,
CNBC,
11 Feb. 2025
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News outlets whose owners worry about lawsuits or government harassment rein in their investigative teams and their most aggressive reporters.—
STEVEN LEVITSKY,
Foreign Affairs,
11 Feb. 2025
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She was said to have tortured hundreds of girls and women and bathe in the blood of her victims, though the veracity of these claims have been questioned by historians.—
Hannah Malach,
WWD,
4 Feb. 2025
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Protests against the Assad regime spread quickly in the spring of that year after a group of children were arrested and tortured for writing anti-regime graffiti on walls in the city of Deraa.—
Eyad Kourdi,
CNN,
31 Jan. 2025
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Guests had been saddened by the seemingly sudden departure of their predecessors, who had been longtime residents of the park.—
Eve Chen,
USA TODAY,
11 Feb. 2025
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People are still perplexed and saddened by the questionable move on the Mavericks' side, especially their majority owner, Mark Cuban.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
9 Feb. 2025
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