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Those documents alleged that Lisa Marie Presley, Keough’s mother, had borrowed $3.8 million from the company and “gave a deed of trust encumbering Graceland as security.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2024

Forbes reported on how the influx of returns has encumbering retailers since early 2021.

From Washington Times • Jun. 28, 2022

Personally, I blame the baggy white t-shirt Mickelson was wearing underneath his polo, the added weight encumbering his movement.

From Golf Digest • Mar. 25, 2020

“They are able to borrow things from each other’s labs and use discoveries without compromising or encumbering their intellectual property.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 15, 2016

"You are only joking!" she hastily replied, without the slightest embarrassment; "you would never think of encumbering yourself with such a poor, ugly thing as I am."

From In Paradise A Novel. Vol. I. by Heyse, Paul