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"We're not focused on people losing weight for the pleasure of it," Soriot told the media call.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026
Schoenbrun’s talent for image-making, however, ends up shouldering much of that weight, letting intricate ideas about identity and personal relationships to digital media sit gracefully atop beautifully rendered cinematography.
From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2026
The move to increase the weight of soft drinks in Carlsberg’s revenue looks smart, analyst Edward Mundy at Jefferies wrote.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
The figure was decided upon after factoring in the weight of the rescuer, stretcher and other kit that would add to the combined total.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
I stare into my lap, feel the weight of her words.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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Publicans serve it in pints—a system of weights and measures, then, much like that in the unseen foreign parts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
News adjusted its scoring weights for the new rankings to mirror growing concerns over affordability in the United States.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026
Instead, it aids exercise, helping you lift heavier weights or do more reps per set.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
Birds that grew up carrying the weights could walk with the added load without expending additional energy.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026
It looked about as heavy as Lucas’s weights.
From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt
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Wain reminded readers of his autobiography that in Tolkien’s time the Oxford English syllabus “was weighted in favor of the Middle Ages.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
Tokyo's Nikkei 225, which is also heavily weighted to tech, ended in the red, though well off earlier lows.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
The more valuable the stock, the bigger its influence on the daily direction of the index, which is weighted by market capitalization.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026
Fleming's backroom team, announced last week, is heavily weighted towards homegrown coaches.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
My feet drag, as though they’re weighted, and because my back is stooped I end up looking down at my slippers framed by the walker.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
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Using a statistical method called Bayesian weighting, the researchers assigned greater importance to models that more closely matched the historical evidence.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026
When the researchers applied their improved model weighting to projections of precipitation, they found indications that current climate models may also underestimate future snowfall in southeastern Greenland and rainfall across the Mediterranean region.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026
Consequently, any great jump in spending by hyperscalers may clobber stocks that carry great weighting in the market.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
“We don’t observe a meaningful inflection in pixel additions when weighting pixels by web traffic,” they write.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Rowan took the map from his pack and unrolled it on the grass, weighting the corners down with stones.
From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda
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