How to Use debt burden in a Sentence

debt burden

noun
  • The high debt burden is a near-term risk that the company faces.
    — Trefis Team, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
  • For years, the country has been unable to rein in its debt burden.
    — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 20 Feb. 2026
  • The student-loan debt burden among older adults is part of a larger shift.
    — Next Avenue, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Here are six basic yet vital tips to help young adults keep their debt burden down and their net worth climbing.
    — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 31 May 2023
  • The country's debt burden has also risen over the past year as borrowing costs have grown.
    — Chloe Taylor, CNBC, 1 May 2026
  • Jones believes the only viable path forward is to inflate and grow out of the debt burden.
    — Marie Poteriaieva, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
  • The group’s high debt burden has also sparked investor anxiety.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2025
  • The consequences of this debt burden stay with Black borrowers far longer.
    — Aisha Nyandoro, Forbes.com, 9 May 2025
  • This equates to a debt burden of $54,241 per taxpayer.
    — Mike Patton, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • That historic record reflects, in large part, the state’s long-running fiscal struggles and debt burden.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Biden took office vowing to whittle down the debt burden on student and graduates.
    — Abha Bhattarai, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2023
  • Greece, for example, lost a quarter of its output during a decade-long crisis, and its debt burden soared.
    — Eva Roytburg, Fortune Europe, 10 June 2024
  • Kenya’s debt burden has forced its leaders to face a series of impossible choices.
    — Mark Suzman, Foreign Affairs, 11 July 2024
  • Because tax revenues have not kept pace, deficits have swelled, and the country’s overall debt burden has grown crushingly.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Switzerland has been arguably the most successful country in reining in budget deficits and its debt burden.
    — Steve H. Hanke, National Review, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Meanwhile, the debt burden, which is rapidly nearing $36 trillion, shows no signs of easing.
    — Frank Holmes, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
  • America’s debt burden has hit $38 trillion.
    — Preston Fore, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The overriding factor, Tait argued, is the global debt burden.
    — Sean Lee, Forbes.com, 27 Jan. 2026
  • The sale was used to pay down a debt burden from two years earlier when two grandchildren of George Halas sold their shares.
    — Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 16 June 2025
  • So if weather disasters cause college students to carry more debt burden, that can ripple through other parts of their lives for years.
    — Rebecca Hersher, NPR, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Dividing by the size of the economy puts the debt burden in the context of the US’s resources.
    — Dylan Matthews, Vox, 16 Aug. 2024
  • More surprising, perhaps, is the medical debt burden on seniors.
    — Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 28 Dec. 2024
  • In Kenya, blowback over attempts to address the country’s $80 billion debt burden has been much worse.
    — Hanna Ziady, CNN, 2 July 2024
  • Its margins, cash flow and returns on investments had deteriorated over five years and its debt burden had soared.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2024
  • But neither candidate is even making a gesture towards reducing the debt burden in this country.
    — CBS News, 3 Nov. 2024
  • Far behind mortgages are student loans and car loans, which each total 10% of Americans’ debt burden.
    — Ben Kesslen, Quartz, 1 July 2024
  • Spending will continue to increase and the debt burden — already unbearable — will grow heavier and more costly.
    — Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Spending will continue to increase and the debt burden—already unbearable—will grow heavier and more costly.
    — Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Clear rules, no gimmicks Forest and Kathleen suggested several ideas that may help ease their debt burden.
    — Kamaron McNair, CNBC, 28 Sep. 2024
  • But the project has also worsened Laos’ debt burden – in turn, creating problems for Beijing, experts say.
    — Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Oct. 2023

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