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weight

[wayt] / weɪt /






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As her health improved, the weight began to come off.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

Before they reach market, some farm-raised salmon eat more than six times their weight in wild-caught fish.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

Spacecraft designers face strict limits on the weight and size of the equipment they can launch.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 9, 2026

Losing weight can reduce back and knee pain that people experience as they get older.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

He had waved a bit apologetically at the procession of small boys behind him, each staggering under the weight of several huge volumes.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

The new model lets users download and customise the parameters, or "weights", that determine how it computes to their own servers.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

The company said that closed models—where developers keep the source code, training data, and underlying model weights hidden—could pose security risks for users because they sometimes block responses to useful cyberdefense requests.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Their weights, or the numeral parameters that the model learns throughout the training process, can be downloaded directly and run locally.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026

Strength training does not just mean lifting the heaviest weights in the gym.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

I’ve been doing morning weights with Dad for about a year—just these little blue plastic ones that tuck under my parents’ bed, but there’s a cumulative effect.

From "Liar & Spy" by Rebecca Stead

At least 165 of the ships were bottom trawlers, a particularly destructive form of fishing that uses weighted nets that scrape the ocean floor, destroying virtually everything in their path.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

Seoul and Taipei -- both heavily weighted with tech firms -- were closed for holidays.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

Before listing the worst- and best-performing stocks for September, here is a look at how the 11 sectors of the S&P 500 performed, along with weighted forward price-to-earnings ratios:

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

One man rides a draft horse dragging a wooden harrow, weighted down by a boulder, to break up the soil.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

Now he understood what was going to happen to the little owls if he did his job properly, and it weighted him with an aching and unshakeable sorrow.

From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen

The so-called bottom-up projection — that is, adding up all the estimates of S&P 500 companies and then weighting by market cap — is $417.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026

The international fund has no U.S. exposure, with Japan its largest country weighting at 15%, and a one-year return of 27%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

And with a capitalization of $5.26 trillion, Nvidia is the market’s biggest company, carrying a 7.6% weighting in the S&P 500.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026

Tech companies make up a tenth of the Stoxx Europe 600’s weighting, compared with around 40% of the S&P 500.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 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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