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overweight

[oh-ver-wayt, oh-ver-wayt, oh-ver-wayt] / ˈoʊ vərˈweɪt, ˈoʊ vərˌweɪt, ˌoʊ vərˈweɪt /


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The bank raises its recommendation on Genmab’s stock to overweight from neutral, while lifting its target price to 3,500 Danish kroner from 2,050 kroner.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

Morgan maintains a strategic overweight in German bonds versus U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

A 2024 review found that intermittent fasting may be associated with small reductions in waist circumference and fat mass in people who are overweight or obese.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

MS has an unchanged overweight rating and US$65.20 target price on the U.S. stock, which closed down 2.9% at US$42.55.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

About fifteen pounds overweight, a bob of reddish, golden hair.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee

Instead, its biggest overweights are in defensive sectors that have also held up well during the recent sell off.

From Barron's ● Apr. 1, 2026

He said they see better diversifiers within financials and healthcare — their two biggest sector overweights.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 15, 2026

He recently increased his overweights in cyclical sectors such as financials and homebuilders.

From Reuters ● Jan. 5, 2022

If she overweights these achievements, it may be because people are so disinclined to give her any credit.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 28, 2020

But, as should be in a novel, the historical never overweights the human or fictitious interest, but is always properly subordinated to it.

From Ringan Gilhaize or The Covenanters by John Galt

Information technology and communication services, which we overweighted for a long time, moved back to market weight toward the end of last year.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026

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

If a training data has an overrepresentation of any gender or ethnicity, the features that distinguish that group may be overweighted.

From New York Times ● Nov. 6, 2018

Then there is his character, a relentlessly lively presence in a team otherwise overweighted towards introspection.

From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2013

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

There was not much point in telling people to keep overweighting the U.S. when it had already succeeded so well, and opportunities existed overseas.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026

Jonathan Harrison, a financial advisor at Sound Stewardship in Overland Park, Kan., has been overweighting large-cap value, small-caps, and international stocks in his client portfolios for years.

From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2025

"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


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