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[hef-tee] / ˈhɛf ti /


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But if your pay is already on the high side, AI might dash your hope for a hefty raise even if you’re an all-star.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

The older your credit, the better risk you are for lenders, so cancel your newest cards first and, as an aside, prioritize canceling cards with hefty annual fees.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

His books on New York City planner Robert Moses and President Lyndon B. Johnson function as both biography and challenge, their hefty page counts daring readers to dive in.

From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026

That will give them a hefty stake in CBS, CNN, Comedy Central, HBO and two historic Hollywood film studios.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

I was startled to see a live person in the shopcase, a hefty girl of about thirty, in a green, yellow and lavender chiffon dress.

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger

We’re facing problems heftier than choosing whether to watch a morally dubious show about a magical boy and his friends.

From Salon ● Apr. 2, 2026

Heading into this year, some Wall Street analysts expected heftier tax refunds as a result of President Donald Trump’s so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act to free up consumer spending.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 30, 2026

The Ibex is built on a Ford F-250 Super Duty, the heftier cousin of the popular F-150 pickup.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 22, 2026

California grads who moved to New York for college were drawn to smaller, competitive private liberal arts colleges, usually with heftier tuitions than California’s public universities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 29, 2025

People were everywhere; some working in the quarry itself, others scattered about the hillside; the heftier among the men splitting boulders, the women and children chipping fragments off the larger stones.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya

The heftiest chunk of her pay comes from a nontaxable stipend travel nurses earn to cover their living expenses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026

Consuming such large amounts of food can lead to massive weight increases, with the spring cubs like 806 Jr seeing some of the heftiest jumps.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2023

In other words, like sauropods in general, the heftiest sauropods occupied somewhat different ecological niches from one another.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 15, 2023

The generalized fourth-power law explains why road damage is disproportionately inflicted by the heftiest vehicles.

From Slate ● Jun. 28, 2023

"Then it's the heftiest bobcat I've ever heard about," said Phil.

From The Ranger Boys and the Border Smugglers by Claude A. Labelle




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