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overweight

[oh-ver-weyt, oh-ver-weyt, oh-ver-weyt] / ˈoʊ vərˈweɪt, ˈoʊ vərˌweɪt, ˌoʊ vərˈweɪt /


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Some have tweaked their portfolios, shifting from overweight positions in large-cap tech stocks to a more neutral stance.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 23, 2026

"Having weak leg muscles and being overweight or obese increases a person's risk for knee osteoarthritis," Cheng said.

From Science Daily Aug. 20, 2026

You'd be surprised how many of us are overweight.

From BBC Aug. 17, 2026

At 6 feet 3 and 236 pounds, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is, like more than two-thirds of Americans, overweight.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 2026

I went back to where Call was standing on one leg like an overweight egret.

From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson

Materials, healthcare and information technology are their sector overweights.

From MarketWatch Apr. 14, 2026

Instead, its biggest overweights are in defensive sectors that have also held up well during the recent sell off.

From Barron's Apr. 1, 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

The market pullback offers an opportunity to rebalance portfolios, potentially trimming overweighted tech stocks and rotating into small- or mid-cap and value stocks.

From Barron's Nov. 18, 2025

Then there is his character, a relentlessly lively presence in a team otherwise overweighted towards introspection.

From BBC Dec. 22, 2013

I see institutional investors paring down Apple from overweighted to equal weighted to underweighted. 

From Forbes Nov. 12, 2012

So-called contrarian and value investors, like Warren Buffett, have argued that pessimism is often overweighted in asset prices, which makes widespread gloom a bullish indicator.

From New York Times Dec. 30, 2011

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

Overall, Miller is overweighting technology stocks in his portfolio, anticipating at least high-teens-percentage earnings growth in the next five to 10 years, but he is cognizant of risks in the sector.

From MarketWatch Jul. 28, 2026

Are investing algorithms flawed because they are likely overweighting historically atypical data?

From Barron's Apr. 15, 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




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