weighty
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This weighty destiny also explains why the Higashi villagers went out of their way to keep Yuru close.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026
On nearly every weighty promise, with the exception of those beer prices, Arte Moreno has failed.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2026
The last endorsement was especially weighty coming from a winner of the Fields Medal, one of the highest honors for human mathematicians.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026
Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth is the headline speaker at Asia's premier defence summit opening Friday, but China's top officials aren't expected despite weighty questions like Taiwan and the war in Iran.
From Barron's ● May 29, 2026
The hall in which they stood was overfull of dark wood and weighty carving, dim under the heaviness of the staircase, which lay back from the farther end.
From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson
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A couple of the disputes are a bit weightier than a question of whether someone’s yard goes to here . . . or to here.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026
The couple are set to return to the presidential residence, but this time Mutharika's in-tray will be far weightier.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2025
It feels even weightier on today of all days — “How deep is the ocean, I’ve lost my way.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2025
“Please Don’t Cry” has a weightier R&B influence than past projects.
From Seattle Times ● May 24, 2024
We learned that a bright button is weightier than four volumes of Schopenhauer.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
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The city's historically lucrative wholesale and retail trade remains one of its weightiest sectors, accounting for almost 25 percent of GDP in the first nine months of 2024.
From Barron's ● Mar. 1, 2026
For nearly 500 years the Court of Session has considered the thorniest and weightiest matters of the moment.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2023
Opinionpalooza, aka June, aka the end of the Supreme Court term, when the year’s weightiest opinions tend to come out.
From Slate ● Jun. 1, 2023
Admittedly, the lawsuit — essentially, a dispute among insurers over the bill for all that cracked fiberglass and teak — won’t be the weightiest matter heard in federal court in Seattle.
From Seattle Times ● May 28, 2023
The restoration and preservation of our forests, then, and an adequate policy of accomplishment, become of the weightiest importance.
From Proceedings of the Second National Conservation Congress at Saint Paul, September 5-8, 1910 by United States. National Conservation Congress