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PBMs emerged as intermediaries to help health insurers steer doctors and hospitals to the cheapest drug alternatives and give insurers the concentrated heft that would afford them greater leverage in negotiations with drug manufacturers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

The idea isn’t to make three versions of roughly the same thing, but to offer a little variety in texture, flavor and heft.

From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026

Behind the scenes, the company leverages its corporate heft.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

He might find them, but his team is lacking ideas, conviction, composure, physical and psychological heft, creativity, ruthlessness and stomach for a fight.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

In that moment, he would have given up half his share of the thirty million kruge for the familiar heft of his cane.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

Another possibility, yet to be modeled, is that the gravitational hefts of Venus and Earth scattered the material further out before some worked its way back to our planet.

From New York Times ● May 23, 2022

This time, players are in the shoes of Gordon Freeman, who hefts his iconic crowbar as the game ends.

From The Verge ● Mar. 27, 2020

Your father hefts his pack onto his back and you smear zinc on your face, following him up the trail.

From Salon ● Jun. 17, 2018

“EVERYBODY thinks this is a 50-pound sack of seeds,” says Steven Fabijanski as he hefts a large white bag onto a table.

From Economist ● Mar. 1, 2018

He hefts it for weight, reads the name of the sender on the envelope and the address, looks at the handwriting, and studies the postmark and the date.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

The missile, hefted at a lofted angle from a site near the North Korean capital of Pyongyang, flew around 620 miles before splashing into the Sea of Japan.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 12, 2023

So he hefted a ginormous statue of the Virgin Mary and walked on the water of the river Dnieper to get it out of harm’s way.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2022

To demonstrate the magnitude of this Borgesian Library of Babel, Cruz reached beneath his desk and hefted up a tower of four little books.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 23, 2022

Diaz, 30, said that her record-breaking 127 kilogram lift in the clean and jerk event was the first time she had successfully hefted that much weight.

From New York Times ● Jul. 26, 2021

He grabbed TimeStar’s belt and hefted him off the ground.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles

She prepares dinner, then hurries to an Amazon warehouse for a 6 1/2-hour shift sorting, scanning and hefting bulky items.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 10, 2026

Other footage shows Scouts hefting umbrellas as they line up in the sun for facilities, and flooding convenience stores to buy ice and ice cream.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 4, 2023

Taking a break from hefting bricks, Tica told The Associated Press that he had been working to loosen the earth with a metal rod when the ground suddenly began to collapse.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 29, 2022

“He’s a strong guy, and that’s good for all of us!” said butcher Karoly Ludanyi, hefting a string of glistening sausage links a stall in Budapest’s landmark central market hall.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2022

I was hefting a trilobite fossil and half listening.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly