overweight
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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
Middle-aged, overweight and poor of sight, Grossman, by then a published novelist, was rejected for combat duty and assigned as a reporter to the army’s daily newspaper, the Red Star.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
The findings raise questions about public health advice that encourages people to reduce sweet-tasting foods as a way to combat overweight and obesity.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
Reports estimate, external obesity and being overweight costs the UK economy approximately £126bn per year, including £12bn to the NHS - roughly 7% of its annual budget.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
The vet says our dog needs more exercise because she’s dumpy and overweight.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
Instead, its biggest overweights are energy, healthcare and consumer defensive.
From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026
Yardeni said he’s instead recommending market-weighting those two combined sectors and rebalancing by adding overweights in S&P 500 financials and industrials.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 8, 2025
He recently increased his overweights in cyclical sectors such as financials and homebuilders.
From Reuters ● Jan. 5, 2022
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
Consider rebalancing portfolios by trimming overweighted positions and rotating into small and mid-cap stocks or bonds.
From Barron's ● Nov. 18, 2025
“The dealers’ survey is overweighted to the larger galleries,” said Servais in an interview.
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2022
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
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
Jonathan Harrison, a financial advisor at Sound Stewardship in Overland Park, Kan., has been overweighting large-cap value, small-caps, and international stocks in his client portfolios for years.
From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 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
