as in to get down
to make sad
that sort of news really bums me out
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Radhika hopes to meet a romantic man who isn't afraid to be adventurous with her or get down on the dance floor.—
Joel Thayer,
Newsweek,
27 Jan. 2025 -
Two of the Big 12’s best get down to it at The Phog on Saturday evening.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
The Athletic,
25 Jan. 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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Families are burdened by rising housing costs, limited health care access and shrinking educational opportunities, and by those in power who too often prioritize profits over people.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
26 Jan. 2025
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Specifically regarding lumber, though, increased tariffs threatened by President Donald Trump on Canada, a major source, might burden supply chains and raise prices, which will be absorbed by homeowners.—
Bob Woods,
CNBC,
26 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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In sorrow and pain and cost, Sir, porcelain troubles me most.—
Robert Pinsky,
The New Yorker,
30 Jan. 2025
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Concern over how Kennedy would lead during another pandemic Senators pressed Kennedy on his past statements about COVID-19 as a window into how an HHS under his leadership would respond to a new pandemic—a thought that troubles Burnett.—
Alice Park,
TIME,
29 Jan. 2025
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Some fans worried about the legality of all this, and if something like Beyond was destined to be struck down by a copyright claim.—
Jason Fanelli,
Rolling Stone,
1 Feb. 2025
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The restaurant reopened after a brief closure, but its owners worry for its future.—
Bill Addison,
Los Angeles Times,
1 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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Westminster alumni from those years were saddened to see the beautiful building demolished so a new East Middle School could be constructed on the same property in 2023.—
Thomas Goodwin Smith,
Baltimore Sun,
28 Jan. 2025
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Thanks for Phan’s contributions came rolling in Tuesday from chefs, restaurateurs and civic leaders saddened by news of the chef’s sudden death.—
Linda Zavoral,
The Mercury News,
22 Jan. 2025
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