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The phrase "adding to the burden" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing situations where additional stress, responsibility, or difficulty is being imposed on someone or something.
Example: "The new regulations are adding to the burden of small businesses already struggling to stay afloat."
Alternatives: "increasing the load" or "compounding the difficulties".
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Unions fear part-time jobs will be axed, adding to the burden on remaining workers and lowering standards.
And if the spammers have used a real person's email address, you'll just be adding to the burden inflicted on some hapless bystander.
"We don't want to be adding to the burden they are already under from the World Trade Center and the airplane crash.
Forecasts of climate change also predict more erratic weather patterns for many countries, wreaking havoc with subsistence farming and adding to the burden of malnutrition.
(It certainly pushes up the cost of doctors' malpractice insurance).The Bush team also attacks Mr Kerry for adding to the burden of regulation.
This approach would make the former coal plant project a pollution-belcher only six kilometers from the capital city, using poor-quality coal and adding to the burden of disease– an unnecessary anachronism.
Aaron Wasserman, Periscope's senior engineer, said the aim was to deal with abusive comments on the site but without adding to the burden of the broadcaster by making them flag up abusive comments.
With the general election just over a year away, Labour have sought to focus attention on how strongly inflation has outstripped pay growth, adding to the burden on households from the coalition's austerity drive.
Many reservists who had been sent home when their tours were complete had not been replaced, adding to the burden of the remaining guards even as the number of prisoners continued to rise.
And United Airlines, the world's largest carrier, was forced to cancel more than 20,000 flights over the summer, largely because of labor disputes, adding to the burden on passengers and other airlines.
We're surely more help to them if we try to acknowledge the many conflicting demands and overwhelming feelings they grapple with, instead of adding to the burden by wanting them to be sorted.
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