heavy
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Plus, a heavy bet on 1990s nostalgia is paying off for Levi’s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
They said a shift towards asset-light, services-oriented businesses, has meant parts of the asset heavy universe look more attractive after that recent de-rating.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
And for much of the game Sunday, gloom once again engulfed McVay and a team that opened the season as a heavy Super Bowl favorite.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
Scourfield said despite the decline of heavy industry and manual work, traditional images of "masculinity" persist for younger men through social media and influencers.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
The black rags of his ruined shirt clung to his heavy shoulders.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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I didn’t see the seals of approval from America’s trio of book-club heavies — Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, and Jenna Bush Hager — on its cover.
From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2026
Beating Miami would give Indiana a perfect 16-0 campaign in which they will have thumped heavies like Oregon, Ohio State, Alabama, Oregon again, and everybody else to boot.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 10, 2026
He named a long list of industry heavies and bands before adding: "To the homeless and the powerless and the forgotten, we always say thank you."
From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2025
If you want to contend in the Six Nations then you better bring as many heavies as you can find.
From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2025
They are smaller shells;—and amongst them, booming through the night like an organ, go the great coal-boxes and the heavies.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
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Aramco also slashed November prices for its heavier crude grades sold to Asia by $5 a barrel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
At Fountains Abbey, this could include increasing drainage capacity and gutters to cope with heavier rainfall.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
It’s also why diesel is used to power heavier machines, such as trucks, tractors and even ships, where the energy density of the fuel matters more.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
Sodium ion batteries are also not as energy dense as lithium ion batteries, meaning they must be slightly bigger and heavier in order to provide the same amount of power.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
Aristotle took the view that harder substances are denser and heavier than softer substances; it followed that ice is heavier than water.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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The US currently has about 55,000 military personnel stationed in Japan, with the heaviest concentration based on the tropical island prefecture.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
Physicists at the University of Oxford have helped demonstrate that one of quantum physics' strangest phenomena, quantum entanglement, can persist even among some of the heaviest and shortest-lived particles ever produced.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
Some of the heaviest trade with Canada falls to U.S. states that lie along the northern border.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
On Wednesday, the greatest chance of scattered heavy and thundery showers will affect the north of the UK, with Northern Ireland, parts of Scotland and northern England likely to see some of the heaviest downpours.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
Citra, who was not the heaviest sleeper, found herself awake all night after they arrived home.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
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