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He said his mother told him she and her husband were "slowly rebuilding their strength" after losing a substantial amount of weight.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
That raised the possibility that some of the biological benefits of calorie restriction might be reproduced without requiring people to lose weight.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
Information technology and communication services, which we overweighted for a long time, moved back to market weight toward the end of last year.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
As a singer-songwriter with nearly 40,000 Instagram followers of her own, Amor said she’s felt the weight of having opinions — losing friends and followers and receiving critical direct messages.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
It was thick enough to hold a man's weight, but he waited two days, then three, hoping that leads, streaks of open water, would appear.
From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell
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Hidden in the basement of a supermarket, the thick smell of sweat hangs heavy in the air as she pushes weights alongside bearded muscle-men.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
You can do the exercises at home, with little to no equipment, and you can easily progress with hand-held weights, if desired.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
For most of the past 100 years, research has found that an equally weighted portfolio of stocks has generally outperformed the traditional index, which weights the different stocks according to their market value.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
Modifying weights can make a model more polite, sassier or more prone to hallucination.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
There was a scraping as everyone drew their cauldrons toward them and some loud clunks as people began adding weights to their scales, but nobody spoke.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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Interest-rate strategists at TD Securities wrote in an October 2025 report that the advance of stablecoins could “influence Treasury’s debt management decisions, leading to a shorter weighted average maturity of issuance.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
“It’s like wearing a weighted blanket and oven mitts,” Gardner notes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
The weighted rolling consensus 12-month EPS estimate for the index has risen at more than twice the pace of the index’s price.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
The trimmed mean and weighted median measures of underlying inflation preferred by the Bank of Canada averaged 1.95% annually compared with 1.9% a month earlier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
The fragments of Jesse left behind were dense in my pockets and weighted me down, pulling me toward the center.
From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson
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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
While the fund can be aggressive in making changes when called upon to do so, it’s also disciplined in following its quantitative process to select stocks, buy and sell them, and allocate its portfolio weighting.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
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
Looking ahead, asset quality will be a key area to watch as supply chain-related inflation risks build, while the proposed expansion of the Malaysia’s benchmark Kuala Lumpur Composite Index could temporarily reduce the sector’s weighting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
“Any merchant who advertises ‘Honest Scales’ must have been thinking about weighting them,” she says.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
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