featherweight
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Take Katz’s T.50: It combines a race-car-like V-12 engine with a featherweight body and can go from 0 to 60 mph in a tick under three seconds.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
The bout was scheduled for five rounds in the featherweight division.
From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2026
Case in point: the featherweight quilted Celestia jacket with a highly reflective shell that, according to the designer, “comes alive with motion.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2026
Moving up to featherweight is an option, but the division lacks household names and a jump to super-featherweight is likely a step too far.
From BBC • May 2, 2026
What Cavendish was trying to do was measure gravity at this extremely featherweight level.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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