weighed

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They include a nugget from the California gold rush; an 1879 lightbulb by Thomas Edison; a mainframe component from ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic computer that was built in 1946 and weighed 30 tons.

From Barron's • May 29, 2026

For Caballero, he says the arts have provided an escape that he “needed in order to survive and not feel weighed down by American consumerism, by poverty and by feeling trapped.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026

He also weighed in on work-life balance and how he brings his children into business decisions over the dinner table.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

But Rodgers is still being weighed down by one reminder of his time with the Packers: the Wisconsin property that he purchased in 2015, which has been lingering on the market for six months now.

From MarketWatch • May 29, 2026

There were more than 400 of them, documenting the voyage and ordeal of Endurance, but they weighed far too much to save all of them.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong