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GLP-1 drugs have transformed the public conversation around appetite and weight loss; “ThinTok” has given restriction a new algorithmic sheen; conspicuously thin celebrity bodies are once again objects of fascination.
From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2026
The research, published in the journal, Ecology, external, adds weight to calls to create strips of natural land outside protected areas that connect separate wildlife areas broken apart by roads, towns, or farms.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
Its experts retained the acceptable daily intake of 15 milligrams per kilogram of body weight per day and found that estimated dietary exposure remained below that level across the population groups assessed.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026
Patients on the highest dose in a big study lost an average of 28.3% of their body weight, Eli Lilly reported in June.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
“What’s wrong? You look like you’re carrying the weight of the whole world.”
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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"The glass beads serve a similar function to calibration weights on a scale," explains Iris Weber from the University of Münster.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026
This network links words through connections of various weights.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
Experimentation belongs there, so do sudden spikes and so do the proprietary frontier models, whose owners release the weights to nobody.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
Hidden in the basement of a supermarket, the thick smell of sweat hangs heavy in the air as she pushes weights alongside bearded muscle-men.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
My mother watches as he stretches out my legs and both arms, then has me use weights and resistance bands.
From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen
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Still, the trimmed mean and weighted median measures of underlying inflation preferred by the Bank of Canada were unchanged, averaging 1.95% annually.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
Adobe’s forward P/E of 9.6 compares with weighted valuations of 25.2 for the S&P 500 software group and 19.6 for the full S&P 500, according to FactSet.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
Going into 2027, eurozone bond curves are expected to resume steepening, encouraging debt management offices to continue gradually reducing weighted average maturity, Morgan Stanley strategists say in a note.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
I walk down the street and I see an alarming number of people wearing weighted walking vests now, which is so frightening that it requires me to catch my breath every now and again.
From Slate ● Sep. 6, 2026
Lillian Meecham had been radiant, a dazzling partner who added charm to a family so drilled and weighted down with the responsibility of obedience that they seemed to function and move together like a machine.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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The so-called bottom-up projection — that is, adding up all the estimates of S&P 500 companies and then weighting by market cap — is $417.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
In a move that highlights those concerns, the manager of Norway’s $2.4 trillion sovereign-wealth fund proposed slashing the weighting of government debt in its bond portfolio to 50% from 70%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Tech companies make up a tenth of the Stoxx Europe 600’s weighting, compared with around 40% of the S&P 500.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Under the changes, the weighting given to the benefits brought by companies will be doubled, from 10% to 20% for contracts worth £5m or more, the Cabinet Office said.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
Not everyone was attentive; one juror, as though poisoned by the numerous spring-fever yawns weighting the air, sat with drugged eyes and jaws so utterly ajar bees could have buzzed in and out.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
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