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overweight

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


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Another officer, Ayron McKay, told internal affairs investigators about an instance in which the unit’s officers were discussing a candidate who they believed was overweight.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 4, 2026

The proportion of overweight and obese 10 and 11-year-olds rose from 35% to 41%, with poorer children disproportionately affected.

From BBC Sep. 3, 2026

Morgan Stanley upgraded its stock rating for the online trading platform provider from equal-weight to overweight, increasing its price target from $124 to $150.

From MarketWatch Sep. 1, 2026

The bank has an overweight rating and a A$73.00 target on Mineral Resources.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

Sergeant Maples was overweight by thirty-five pounds but still looked distinguished in his dress uniform.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

Yardeni said he’s instead recommending market-weighting those two combined sectors and rebalancing by adding overweights in S&P 500 financials and industrials.

From MarketWatch Dec. 8, 2025

All of which means that investors seeking exposure should either buy a dedicated Latin America fund or an actively managed emerging markets fund that overweights the region.

From Barron's Oct. 8, 2025

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

From The Guardian Apr. 28, 2020

“My overweights change based on where I find good investments, and I see great stuff in tech now.”

From New York Times Oct. 13, 2017

But for us the past overweights the present; we cannot, if we would, get rid of the burden of it.

From The Meaning of Good—A Dialogue by G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes) Dickinson

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

To understand why, consider what happened in 2002, when board members of the school decided that the trust’s portfolio was dangerously overweighted in Hershey stock.

From New York Times Jul. 30, 2016

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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