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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

Anthropic’s lease payments are used to repay the loans, and Broadcom uses its balance sheet heft to guarantee that lenders will get their money back.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

The signature offerings also include plov, a dish featuring lamb or beef with rice prepared in kazans, specialty cast-iron cauldrons that give it a savory heft.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 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

This is the one attribute at which I'm not below average: body heft.

From "Better Nate Than Ever" by Tim Federle

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 the porcupine, propping it on his shoulder, expression thoughtful.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland

After she sipped the tea my mom delivered, after the three of us brainstormed crutch-friendly Halloween costumes, Mrs. Murray hefted her pocketbook onto one shoulder and got up to leave.

From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2023

Rep. Kevin Hern, Oklahoma Republican, hefted a banker’s box onto the committee dais.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 1, 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

He details his love of Russia and its people, beginning with meeting champion weightlifter Yuri Petrovich Vlasov in 1961 when he was 14 and hadn’t yet hefted a barbell of note.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2022

She hefted her pick and did the same.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

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

“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

Just because a machine is hefting the snow doesn’t mean you can ignore personal safety precautions.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 1, 2021

Cars in their assigned parking spots; a stray cat, the one Michael had secretly named Tuxedo, slinking around the bushes; Mr. Mosley, the maintenance man, hefting a can of paint toward a vacant apartment.

From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly