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overweight

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


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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 A$73.00 target on Mineral Resources.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

After taking all these factors into account, Longview says they remain overweight Japanese equities in their strategic portfolio.

From MarketWatch Aug. 26, 2026

Meanwhile, J.P.Morgan remains overweight on Continental, with resilient tire profitability, a supportive price/mix and improving currency offsetting continuing volume and raw-material headwinds.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 20, 2026

You’d find the high school phenoms running circles around the overweight has-beens, guys who’d effortlessly played above-the-rim years ago now trying to catch their breath and salvage what was left of their once-stylish games.

From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore

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

Their overweights are financials, real estate, materials, healthcare and energy and communications services and utilities are underweights, while tech and industrials are market weights.

From MarketWatch Dec. 3, 2025

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

If one overweights the head the whole structure is apt to become unbalanced.

From By Advice of Counsel by Arthur Cheney Train

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

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

If a training data has an overrepresentation of any gender or ethnicity, the features that distinguish that group may be overweighted.

From New York Times Nov. 6, 2018

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

From BBC Dec. 22, 2013

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

Le Roux and team highlight the potential for a swing back toward large caps because institutional investors tend to be “value-driven and slow-moving,” so overweighting the cheaper small cap index was unavoidable.

From MarketWatch May 5, 2026

Lately, that’s meant overweighting sectors, such as energy and industrials, and underweighting tech, a move that’s hurt performance in recent years.

From Barron's Oct. 11, 2025

"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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