heft
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These adapters still need some heft for thermal management.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
Not only does the stock market comprise a greater share of American wealth than ever before, but it has also reached new extremes in terms of heft relative to the broader economy.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 11, 2026
Combining it with Commerzbank would give it greater heft to invest in technology and boost lending.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
When a term like “mother” is employed so generously, it loses all substantive heft.
From Salon ● May 10, 2026
I don’t want to just drag it across the lawn and kill all the grass, so I heft the whole thing onto my back and haul it over.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
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
Or isn’t that what everyone experiences when Battulga Battogtokh, a strongman from Mongolia, hefts three women simultaneously?
From New York Times ● Dec. 10, 2019
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
Calculations of its hefted flight angle, altitude and length of flight suggested it had the range to reach the continental U.S. if fired on a conventional trajectory.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 19, 2023
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
Now the hills were bare of hefted sheep.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2021
Olive and Claire started to fall behind, so Bronwyn hefted them into her arms, but then she couldn’t keep up, either.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
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
A photographer saw a man hefting the statuette and stopped him and relieved him of the Oscar.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2022
Just because a machine is hefting the snow doesn’t mean you can ignore personal safety precautions.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 1, 2021
In the bailey, her men closed about each other, hefting shields and spears.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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