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Recent Examples of encumber When not encumbered by the problems mentioned earlier, this design provides multifactor authentication in a single stroke. Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 30 Dec. 2024 An additional $195 million was encumbered, leaving at least $513 million unspent. Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2024 One factor delaying a downtown renaissance is that some key properties are encumbered by securitized mortgages, which are taking time to unwind. Marc Joffe, National Review, 12 Dec. 2024 But that didn’t stop Joe Barton, creator of Black Doves, the Netflix Christmas spy thriller now streaming, from encumbering star Keira Knightley as dedicated wife and professional spook Helen Webb with Ben Whishaw‘s Sam Young, a fellow spy and assassin, in all matters of love and relationships. Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for encumber
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  • Britain’s youth are grappling with worse mental health now than 10 years ago, pushing more of them out of employment than their middle-aged peers and impeding their career growth.
    BYPrarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Whereas, for example, if AI is part of a feature set, one component faulting does not necessarily cause the user to feel their tasks have been impeded.
    Agur Jõgi, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
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  • They would be loaded on buses and sent through the Kerem Shalom crossing either to Ashdod port, or to an airport near Eilat.
    Tom Soufi Burridge, ABC News, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Investigators said Hernandez gunned Quadri down, loaded his body into Quadri’s car, then abandoned the vehicle in a parking lot on San Antonio’s south side before checking into a nearby hotel, KABB reported.
    Mitchell Willetts, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 Mar. 2025
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  • However, some connections hinder, rather than help, professional progress.
    Cheryl Robinson, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025
  • His zone swing percentage is higher than average but is going to have to be at Freddie Freeman levels to hinder teams in effectively pitching around him.
    Michael Salfino, The Athletic, 20 Mar. 2025
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  • Woke teachers' unions have infected classrooms with radical gender ideology, burdened teachers and staff with DEI policies, and deliberately excluded parents from notification and informed consent concerning the most intimate details of their children's lives.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 18 Mar. 2025
  • More than 63 percent of renters in Little Haiti are cost burdened.
    Raisa Habersham, Miami Herald, 18 Mar. 2025
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  • Over recent weeks, CISA employees, all speaking on the condition of anonymity, had told Forbes morale was low and concerns were high that important work was being hampered by the cuts.
    Thomas Brewster, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
  • Both Iran and North Korea could then use Russian nuclear and missile technology to develop advanced weapons that would hamper the U.S. military’s response options in East Asia and the Middle East—and even threaten the American homeland.
    Christopher S. Chivvis, Foreign Affairs, 18 Mar. 2025
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  • John Frankenheimer fills the film with a Cold War–era sense that anyone could be the enemy — even, thanks to a chilling turn by Angela Lansbury, one’s own mother.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Their worlds feel just as grand in scope as famously massive games like The Elder Scrolls — presenting lush alien lands filled with tons of diverse creatures and wildlife, and hundreds of individual NPCs that often have unique stories to tell.
    Hayes Madsen, Rolling Stone, 19 Mar. 2025
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  • The government argued her presence in the United States obstructs the administration's foreign policy objective of preventing the spread of antisemitism.
    Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Officials told the outlet his airwaves were not obstructed.
    Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 25 Mar. 2025
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  • Get okay with the idea that in the future, your past work will embarrass you.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Other times, the film feels too coy, as if embarrassed by itself.
    Gregory Nussen, Deadline, 8 Mar. 2025

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“Encumber.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/encumber. Accessed 31 Mar. 2025.

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