weighty

A marriage story weighty enough to bear two fascinatingly complex couples, it explores a web of isolation and desire knotted with the divisions and woes of society today: class, labor, media.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

Picking a major has long been a weighty decision for college students, but the financial stakes appear to be getting higher in the AI era, according to economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026

The documentary powerfully captures the apocalyptic landscape of Gaza City, its streets reduced to rubble and mangled rebar, and the weighty sense of responsibility shouldered by the few remaining journalists on the ground.

From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026

India's top judges often make news for their rulings or pronunciations on weighty matters of law.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

Now I had a weighty, guilty, heart-pounding, sick-to-my-stomach dread.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

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

He argued that some of the removals might stand a court test as the case progresses, noting that some of the books dealt more with “juvenile, flatulent humor” than weightier subjects.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 6, 2024

My body has grown heavy, which makes each step weightier than the previous one.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

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

Union victory upon that field did not, it is true, reveal results of transcendent importance, but Confederate victory,—at one time so near,—would have been followed by the weightiest and most far-reaching consequences.

From Stone's River The Turning-Point of the Civil War by Wilson J. Vance