noun as in personal burden
Strongest matches
adversity, calamity, catastrophe, danger, difficulty, disaster, discomfort, fatigue, grief, hazard, injury, misery, misfortune, oppression, peril, persecution, sorrow, suffering, torment, trouble, worry
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accident, affliction, asperity, austerity, case, curse, destitution, distress, drudgery, grievance, labor, mischance, need, privation, rigor, toil, travail, trial, tribulation, vicissitude, want
Weak matches
hard knocks, Herculean task, rainy day, rotten luck, tough break, tough luck, uphill battle
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Elkind and the AHA also cite emotional stress caused by economic hardship, and depression as the isolation of quarantining drags on.
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For decades to follow, they are there for each other through all the hardships that accompany growing up and growing older, despite the radically different choices they make as adults.
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There’s also a global pandemic where more families are experiencing financial hardship.
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The agency surveyed all of California’s water utilities in November to get a clearer picture of the financial hardship utilities have on residents at a time when more people are jobless and quarantining at home.
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Thanks for all the ways you are making our city a better place in this time of covid and other sadness and hardship.
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For the millions of women and girls displaced by conflicts across the globe, it has been a summer of extreme hardship.
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So, the measure underestimates both economic hardship and the aid families receive.
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In reality, economic hardship is much more commonplace, and its appearance is more subtle.
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Omran has that deep, mature stare that only comes with years of hardship and struggle.
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They never get there and their time in the minors is marked by real economic hardship.
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As judge, I set about collecting his property with much diligence, involving considerable hardship.
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Uriah said it would dishonour him to seek ease and pleasure at home while other soldiers were enduring hardship at the front.
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This was a great hardship to banks, and has been corrected in many states by statutes and by the courts in others.
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Regardless of its financial hardship, however, the educational system continued to improve.
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The more he saw of life as it was, the more he was overcome by the sight of sorrow and hardship on every side.
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