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overweight

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


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The study, which began last week and will run into 2028, has enrolled 450 overweight people and will test two low doses of the pill compared to a placebo.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

The findings come from an analysis of a 16-week randomized trial involving adults with overweight.

From Science Daily Aug. 17, 2026

You'd be surprised how many of us are overweight.

From BBC Aug. 17, 2026

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

At the time Barack took office, nearly a third of American children were overweight or obese.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

Greg Swenson, director of equities at the Leuthold Group, says healthcare is one of the firm’s biggest overweights and top sectors, particularly for biotech and pharmaceuticals, which stands out for strong fundamentals and valuations.

From Barron's May 6, 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

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

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

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

So-called contrarian and value investors, like Warren Buffett, have argued that pessimism is often overweighted in asset prices, which makes widespread gloom a bullish indicator.

From New York Times Dec. 30, 2011

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

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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