overweight
Example Sentences
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India already has more than 77 million people with type-2 diabetes and one of the world's largest populations of overweight adults.
From BBC
Tan maintain an overweight rating on the Malaysian banking sector, citing strong capital, liquidity buffers and stable dividend outlooks, with preferred picks including RHB Bank, Public Bank and Hong Leong Bank.
“We maintain our overweights in health care and materials but no longer recommend stocks exposed to the middle-income consumer or the non-residential construction cycle,” they say.
From MarketWatch
Rebecca said she would be taking Flora to the vet for a full check up and she had become very overweight.
From BBC
We look at where the managers are most “overweight,” meaning the assets on which they are placing their biggest bets, and most “underweight,” meaning the assets they are shunning.
From MarketWatch
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