saddling
- present participle of saddle.
Example Sentences
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But his career collapsed abruptly within a few years when the party accused him of saddling Zibo with onerous debt.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 28, 2026
What happens next may hit everyone who dreams of saddling a dragon squarely in the chest.
From Salon • Jun. 24, 2026
The status quo was saddling administrators with long hours without extra pay amid increasing bureaucratic compliance demands as well as heightened pressure to raise test scores.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026
It also limits the losses to the initial amount invested rather than saddling an investor with unlimited exposure, as occurs with some option strategies.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 9, 2026
We can blame an eighteenth-century English clergyman and Latin scholar named Robert Lowth for saddling us with this one.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
