overweight
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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
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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
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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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