saddle with

phrasal verb

saddled with; saddling with; saddles with

: to cause (someone or something) to have (a problem, burden, responsibility, etc.)

His actions have saddled the company with too much debt.

My boss saddled me with the task of organizing the conference.

—often used as (be) saddled with

The company is saddled with an enormous amount of debt.

She is saddled with a reputation for not being dependable.

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But given that museums are built on selectivity, and saddled with colonialist and imperialist histories, is neutrality possible? —

Maddie Klett, ARTnews.com, 24 Oct. 2024 Andy lives for the boutique art gallery that bears his name, though that too is failing, saddled with loans and unable to make rent, its artists fleeing after shows that fail to move a single piece. —

Alison Willmore, Vulture, 18 Oct. 2024 More to Read Opinion: The U.S. alone is saddled with an electoral college. —

Faith E. Pinho, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2024 She’s saddled with an impossible role — that of Susan, an unhappy American wife on vacation with her husband in Morocco, where she’s hit by a stray bullet that puts her life in danger and generates artificial life-or-death stakes. —

Tim Grierson, Vulture, 18 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for saddle with