overweight
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Italian children have become some of the most overweight in Europe, despite the country being famous for the so-called Mediterranean diet.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
The problem is particularly acute in the south: in parts of the Campania region, more than 40% of eight and nine-year-olds are overweight.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
On Monday, Barclays’s Tom O’Malley upgraded shares of Lumentum to overweight from equal-weight as the company ramps up a number of opportunities in networking.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
She wasn’t overweight, but she hadn’t been comfortable in her body.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
By listening to them talk I accumulated a vocabulary of the road, of tires and springs, of overweight.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
Broader sector overweights include the tech-heavy communications services, which includes Alphabet and Meta Platforms, financials and materials, while market weighted sectors include consumer staples, information technology, and healthcare.
From Barron's ● May 8, 2026
He said they see better diversifiers within financials and healthcare — their two biggest sector overweights.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 15, 2026
Only March 2009 and December 2008 showed larger overweights in bonds.
From Reuters ● Nov. 15, 2023
If she overweights these achievements, it may be because people are so disinclined to give her any credit.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 28, 2020
If one overweights the head the whole structure is apt to become unbalanced.
From By Advice of Counsel by Train, Arthur Cheney
The market pullback offers an opportunity to rebalance portfolios, potentially trimming overweighted tech stocks and rotating into small- or mid-cap and value stocks.
From Barron's ● Nov. 18, 2025
Then there is his character, a relentlessly lively presence in a team otherwise overweighted towards introspection.
From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2013
I see institutional investors paring down Apple from overweighted to equal weighted to underweighted.
From Forbes ● Nov. 12, 2012
So-called contrarian and value investors, like Warren Buffett, have argued that pessimism is often overweighted in asset prices, which makes widespread gloom a bullish indicator.
From New York Times ● Dec. 30, 2011
Since the canoe is as round-bottomed as the trunk from which it was carved, the least imbalance in weight distribution tips the canoe toward the overweighted side.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Are investing algorithms flawed because they are likely overweighting historically atypical data?
From Barron's ● Apr. 15, 2026
At Citigroup, strategists are now recommending overweighting U.S. stocks from a prior neutral stance.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 14, 2026
"Some sovereign wealth funds are overweighting China," he said.
From Reuters ● Oct. 10, 2023
This is exactly what would be expected if hallucinations in psychosis depended on an overweighting of perceptual priors so that they overwhelmed sensory prediction errors, unmooring perceptual best guesses from their causes in the world.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 27, 2019
The front wheels are sinking faster, overweighting the harness.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
