heavy
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There will be heavy surf and strong rip currents along L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
Investors are also awaiting earnings from Meta, Microsoft, Amazon and Apple, with heavy attention on the state of artificial-intelligence spending from those tech names.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
England captain Fran Williams said her team were "far from our best" in a heavy defeat by defending Commonwealth champions Australia.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
Later this year Peru expects a severe El Niño, which could damage fishing stocks, bring heavy rains in the north of the country, and cause a drought in the south.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
I burst into racking sobs, then heard heavy footsteps bearing down the corridor.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
I didn’t see the seals of approval from America’s trio of book-club heavies — Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, and Jenna Bush Hager — on its cover.
From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2026
Beating Miami would give Indiana a perfect 16-0 campaign in which they will have thumped heavies like Oregon, Ohio State, Alabama, Oregon again, and everybody else to boot.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 10, 2026
He named a long list of industry heavies and bands before adding: "To the homeless and the powerless and the forgotten, we always say thank you."
From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2025
If you want to contend in the Six Nations then you better bring as many heavies as you can find.
From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2025
Big Time showed green and went past the heavies.
From "145th Street: Short Stories" by Walter Dean Myers
Lately, that’s become a heavier burden on the market.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
But while American lawmakers nudge artificial-intelligence companies to add mental-health guardrails, Beijing is taking a heavier hand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
As heavier dark matter particles accumulate in key regions, dark matter substructures become more effective at magnifying the light from distant background galaxies.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
"The loss of the leader is heavier than losing our parents," Hoda, a 35-year-old housewife, told AFP news agency.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
Still holding the table, which was feeling increasingly heavier, Duane turned around to respond.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
Within the index, energy and tech carried the heaviest second-quarter expectations: Analysts see energy-sector profits more than doubling from a year earlier, while tech earnings are projected to climb 61%.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
Researchers have developed a new artificial intelligence powered simulation that could significantly improve our understanding of how the universe creates many of its heaviest elements.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 8, 2026
The UN Development Programme has found that Afghanistan is among a group of countries that "have contributed the least to global warming yet bear its heaviest costs".
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
Venezuelan Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello said some of the heaviest damage was reported in residential and commercial districts of east Caracas, the same seismically active areas that were devastated in an earthquake in 1967.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
The heaviest rains of the summer suddenly poured.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
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