heft

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

The collective economic heft of the West overmatches China.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026

When a term like “mother” is employed so generously, it loses all substantive heft.

From Salon ● May 10, 2026

She could see Kaisa and the dancers and the solid heft of the marble pillars, but over it all she could see another ballroom.

From "Ash" by Malinda Lo

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

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

Now the hills were bare of hefted sheep.

From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2021

He shut everything down, repacked his backpack and then hefted it on his shoulder, and left a note for Ms. Freeman: Borrowed some stuff.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste

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

They can be with any form of resistance, such as gravity, hand weights, resistance bands, or even water bottles or cans from the cupboard, or hefting grocery bags.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 29, 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

"Idiots, just because the will said Buy Westing Paper Products," he muttered, hefting a bulky bag from the compartment attached to his bike.

From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin