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Then he made them go away Encumbered by an NDA.

From Washington Post • May 13, 2021

Encumbered by a huge, white leather neck brace, she walked quietly about by herself until she found company: another girl, confined to a wheelchair, whom she could help.

From Time Magazine Archive

Encumbered with a back brace from his 1964 airplane crash, Kennedy must have found it difficult to dive into the water, and the question is how strenuously he really tried.

From Time Magazine Archive

Encumbered by too many laws and overlapping rules, France relies too much on faith in paper regulations, not enough on enforcement.

From Time Magazine Archive

The only measure passed for the relief of Irish tenants since that date was the Encumbered Estates Act of 1849.

From A Short History of English Liberalism by Blease, Walter Lyon