heft
Example Sentences
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I’d argue no on this specific shot-to-shot comparison, mainly because it was Duke-Kentucky, not Duke-UConn, but also because college basketball doesn’t have the cultural heft like it did back then.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026
The achievements come despite lukewarm reviews for the record, with The Telegraph saying it had "all the emotional heft of a perfume advert".
From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026
Nvidia Corp. has the heft to make or break the U.S. stock market — and on Thursday the technology giant dragged down the S&P 500.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 26, 2026
Much of it was lost to the audience, since reverberant amplification gave heroic heft to Blanchett’s voice at the cost of intelligibility.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2026
I used my stomach muscles to add a bit more heft to the groan.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
