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overweight

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


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Public Health Minister Maree Todd noted that two out of three Scottish adults are overweight or obese, with those living in the poorest areas worst affected.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Stronger associations were also seen among participants who were more physically active and among those who were not overweight or obese.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026

According to the NHS, data from 2024 showed that 15% of children in the UK were obese, and 26% were overweight.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

You’d want to underweight stocks so long as you believe interest rates will continue rising, but overweight them once you think that a rate-cut cycle is about to begin.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 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

The ETF wins by selecting the best stocks in the index’s sectors and countries instead of making tactical sector and country overweights, as other active funds often do.

From Barron's ● Mar. 4, 2026

If she overweights these achievements, it may be because people are so disinclined to give her any credit.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 28, 2020

“My overweights change based on where I find good investments, and I see great stuff in tech now.”

From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2017

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

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

To understand why, consider what happened in 2002, when board members of the school decided that the trust’s portfolio was dangerously overweighted in Hershey stock.

From New York Times ● Jul. 30, 2016

Maybe they overweighted cost of living, climate and activities too much.

From Forbes ● Sep. 5, 2014

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

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




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