featherweight
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The bout was scheduled for five rounds in the featherweight division.
From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2026
McGregor was the UFC's first simultaneous two-weight world champion after winning titles at featherweight in 2015 and lightweight in 2016, but his career has been dogged by controversy in recent years.
From BBC • 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
But The Hollywood Reporter describes the film as "pretty polished and as featherweight as a fawning magazine puff piece".
From BBC • May 1, 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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