overweight
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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$5.00/share target on the stock.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
Two-thirds of Americans are overweight, with a level of body fat exceeding that of Arctic seals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
The bank is overweight the financial, industrial and consumer discretionary goods sectors.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026
They idled at a stoplight, and Kendra stared at an overweight woman gassing up her minivan.
From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull
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Instead, its biggest overweights are energy, healthcare and consumer defensive.
From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026
He said they see better diversifiers within financials and healthcare — their two biggest sector overweights.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 15, 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
But for us the past overweights the present; we cannot, if we would, get rid of the burden of it.
From The Meaning of Good—A Dialogue by G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes) Dickinson
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
Maybe they overweighted cost of living, climate and activities too much.
From Forbes ● Sep. 5, 2014
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
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Bank of America strategists are overweighting financials and healthcare along with materials but are keeping tech stocks at market weight, citing concerns over an artificial-intelligence bubble.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 8, 2025
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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