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[weyt] / weɪt /






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Buck told the BBC that these changes mean it's "far easier to over-consume or consume in ways that add to our weight".

From BBC Aug. 7, 2026

She stressed the dangers of confining discussion of eating disorders to weight alone.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

Carrying the weight for a sibling and parent comes from a place of love and duty, but doing too much can lead to burnout.

From MarketWatch Aug. 7, 2026

It’s worth noting that nobody—not Republicans, not Democrats, not anyone on the fringes—can determine for certain the weight a Piker endorsement carries.

From Slate Aug. 7, 2026

Now that Jessica was gone, we all felt like a heavy weight had been lifted from our shoulders.

From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott

They calculated latitude from the angle of the sun’s rays and tested the ocean’s depth with lead weights.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 6, 2026

NDR’s asset-allocation model recommends a 70% allocation to stocks, 20% to bonds and 10% to cash, which compares with benchmark weights of 55%, 35% and 10%, respectively.

From MarketWatch Aug. 4, 2026

Mauricio Zambrano has meanwhile built a makeshift gym where cement and metal pipes serve as weights, providing welcome distraction to the former fighter.

From Barron's Aug. 4, 2026

A standardized system of weights and measures used throughout the region may have supported fairer trade as well.

From Science Daily Jul. 30, 2026

My mother watches as he stretches out my legs and both arms, then has me use weights and resistance bands.

From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen

There is a new weighted put-call ratio sell signal in CVS Health.

From MarketWatch Aug. 6, 2026

Filling the hole at center was weighted so heavily among the Lakers’ priorities — and landing Kessler earned them so much extra credit — it bumps their grade almost all the way up.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 28, 2026

The chart includes forward price-to-earnings ratios, which are Thursday’s closing prices divided by consensus 12-month earnings-per-share estimates among analysts polled by FactSet, weighted by market capitalization.

From MarketWatch Jul. 24, 2026

Bonds have something called duration—the weighted average time it takes to receive their cash flows.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

My moonstone badge warps from a circle into an oval, Department of Supernatural Investigations engraved above the image of an evenly weighted balance.

From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston

Speaking to the Jimmy's Jobs of the Future podcast,, external he said there would be "more social value weighting in public contracts", with a particular focus on firms offering such placements.

From BBC Jul. 30, 2026

Money regularly comes out of paychecks and pours into index funds tracking the S&P 500, buying stocks with no regard to value—only their weighting.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

But the strategists also see this AI tailwind reducing following the rebalance of the sector’s weighting in the index from 15% to 7%.

From MarketWatch Jul. 2, 2026

Because the Dow is a price-weighted index—meaning stock price rather than market capitalization determine the weighting of each company—few funds choose to replicate its composition.

From Barron's Jun. 29, 2026

Not everyone was attentive; one juror, as though poisoned by the numerous spring-fever yawns weighting the air, sat with drugged eyes and jaws so utterly ajar bees could have buzzed in and out.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote




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