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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
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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
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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
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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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