overweight
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Another officer, Ayron McKay, told internal affairs investigators about an instance in which the unit’s officers were discussing a candidate who they believed was overweight.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
The proportion of overweight and obese 10 and 11-year-olds rose from 35% to 41%, with poorer children disproportionately affected.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Previous research has linked greater consumption of UPFs with higher risks of overweight and obesity, metabolic disease, inflammatory markers, cardiovascular disease, especially heart attacks and strokes, and premature death.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026
The bank has an overweight rating and A$5.00/share target on the stock.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
A short, slightly overweight man was lowering himself down.
From "We'll Fly Away" by Bryan Bliss
Materials, healthcare and information technology are their sector overweights.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 14, 2026
The ETF wins by selecting the best stocks in the index’s sectors and countries instead of making tactical sector and country overweights, as other active funds often do.
From Barron's ● Mar. 4, 2026
Only March 2009 and December 2008 showed larger overweights in bonds.
From Reuters ● Nov. 15, 2023
If she overweights these achievements, it may be because people are so disinclined to give her any credit.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 28, 2020
In truth, Mr. Benny as a regrater fell disastrously short of success, being prone to sell at monstrous overweights, which ate up the profits.
From Shining Ferry by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Information technology and communication services, which we overweighted for a long time, moved back to market weight toward the end of last year.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
Managers overweighted both investment-grade corporate bonds and mortgage-backed securities in credit and underweighted Japanese government bonds, expecting that the Bank of Japan would raise rates.
From Barron's ● Feb. 26, 2026
“The dealers’ survey is overweighted to the larger galleries,” said Servais in an interview.
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2022
Maybe they overweighted cost of living, climate and activities too much.
From Forbes ● Sep. 5, 2014
Since the canoe is as round-bottomed as the trunk from which it was carved, the least imbalance in weight distribution tips the canoe toward the overweighted side.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
There was not much point in telling people to keep overweighting the U.S. when it had already succeeded so well, and opportunities existed overseas.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
Global investor sentiment reached its most bullish level since June 2021, with equity overweighting highest since late 2024.
From Barron's ● Feb. 18, 2026
"Some sovereign wealth funds are overweighting China," he said.
From Reuters ● Oct. 10, 2023
This is exactly what would be expected if hallucinations in psychosis depended on an overweighting of perceptual priors so that they overwhelmed sensory prediction errors, unmooring perceptual best guesses from their causes in the world.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 27, 2019
The front wheels are sinking faster, overweighting the harness.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
