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hefty

[hef-tee] / ˈhɛf ti /


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That’s a hefty amount compared with the $1.8 trillion deficit the U.S. ran last year, which didn’t include any stimulus.

From MarketWatch Sep. 10, 2026

At true luxury retailers, personal stylists are rainmakers who generate hefty sales for their employers.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 10, 2026

Now, like many Iranian students dreaming of a future elsewhere, she is scrambling to find another way to take it, while absorbing the new exam fee and hefty travel costs.

From Barron's Sep. 8, 2026

A hefty pair of bestselling fantasy novels, 2019’s “Black Leopard, Red Wolf” and 2022’s “Moon Witch, Spider King,” reframed sword-and-sorcery themes around African folklore.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 1, 2026

Behind him came a hefty, brisk-looking rabbit something over twelve months old.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

We’re facing problems heftier than choosing whether to watch a morally dubious show about a magical boy and his friends.

From Salon Apr. 2, 2026

Heading into this year, some Wall Street analysts expected heftier tax refunds as a result of President Donald Trump’s so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act to free up consumer spending.

From MarketWatch Mar. 30, 2026

Baseball teams from MLB’s top 10 markets—which tend to have larger fan bases and heftier broadcast deals—have a combined .520 winning percentage over the past 10 seasons, according to Stats Perform.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 26, 2026

California grads who moved to New York for college were drawn to smaller, competitive private liberal arts colleges, usually with heftier tuitions than California’s public universities.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 29, 2025

People were everywhere; some working in the quarry itself, others scattered about the hillside; the heftier among the men splitting boulders, the women and children chipping fragments off the larger stones.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya

The heftiest chunk of her pay comes from a nontaxable stipend travel nurses earn to cover their living expenses.

From The Wall Street Journal May 27, 2026

Consuming such large amounts of food can lead to massive weight increases, with the spring cubs like 806 Jr seeing some of the heftiest jumps.

From BBC Oct. 4, 2023

In other words, like sauropods in general, the heftiest sauropods occupied somewhat different ecological niches from one another.

From Scientific American Aug. 15, 2023

The generalized fourth-power law explains why road damage is disproportionately inflicted by the heftiest vehicles.

From Slate Jun. 28, 2023

Lew Wetzel is the heftiest of 'em all, an' we hev some as kin fight out here.

From The Spirit of the Border by Zane Grey




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