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Not only are the Lakers facing an historical impossibility — you’ll remember that NBA teams leading three-games-to-none are 161-0 — but they’re already bearing the weight of an historical humiliation.
From Los Angeles Times • May 10, 2026
It was about this time she struggled with the mental weight of handling the disease.
From BBC • May 10, 2026
In his personal notebooks, he reported that the news brought him a “strange feeling of overwhelming weight and melancholy.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026
As tech stocks go, so goes the market—thank the overwhelming weight of the tech sector relative to everything else.
From Barron's • May 8, 2026
He’d gotten so skinny that the gym teacher had sent him to the school nurse, who had sent him to the guidance counselor, who had asked why he’d lost so much weight.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
Vocabulary lists containing weight
Word Generation Science - Measurement
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Force and Motion (Mechanics) - Middle School
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Space Science (Astronomy) - Introductory
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