overweight
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She wasn’t overweight, but she hadn’t been comfortable in her body.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
Published in Clinical Nutrition, the study followed 99 adults who were overweight or obese.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026
Guernsey's Healthier Weight Strategy estimated more than 57% of adults in the bailiwick are overweight or obese, while it found almost a third of Year 5 children were living with excess weight.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
Woodring maintained his overweight rating and $360 price target on the stock, which implies roughly 15% upside from current levels.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
They idled at a stoplight, and Kendra stared at an overweight woman gassing up her minivan.
From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull
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Such overweights relative to the float create an artificial demand for a stock that is greater than its publicly available supply, which could pose risks for index investors.
From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026
“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 ● Mar. 16, 2026
Only March 2009 and December 2008 showed larger overweights in bonds.
From Reuters ● Nov. 15, 2023
If she overweights these achievements, it may be because people are so disinclined to give her any credit.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 28, 2020
They had charades during the rest hour that afternoon, the overweights headed by the bishop, against the underweights headed by Mr. Moody.
From Where There's a Will by Rinehart, Mary Roberts
Managers overweighted both investment-grade corporate bonds and mortgage-backed securities in credit and underweighted Japanese government bonds, expecting that the Bank of Japan would raise rates.
From Barron's ● Feb. 26, 2026
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
Then there is his character, a relentlessly lively presence in a team otherwise overweighted towards introspection.
From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2013
France had a final attack which ended when Michalak overweighted his chip after another Picamoles surge and both teams will go into the final weekend in danger of finishing with the wooden spoon.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 9, 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
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Le Roux and team highlight the potential for a swing back toward large caps because institutional investors tend to be “value-driven and slow-moving,” so overweighting the cheaper small cap index was unavoidable.
From MarketWatch ● May 5, 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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