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heavyweight

[hev-ee-wayt] / ˈhɛv iˌweɪt /




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In Asia, South Korea’s heavyweight chip companies were mixed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026

Cooper, affectionately known as 'Our 'Enry', was 36 and defending his British, European and Commonwealth heavyweight titles against a man 15 years his junior.

From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026

South Korea’s Kospi, Japan’s Nikkei and Taiwan’s Taiex took the biggest hits, as heavyweight chip and tech stocks tracked the selloff on Wall Street overnight.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

This Hollywood Hills property isn’t the only home on the market with a link to the heavyweight champion.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026

Some of them didn’t understand, and that’s how it began to get around that I was Cassius Clay, world heavyweight champion.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

Other Wall Street heavyweights are also getting behind perps.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2026

But that’s not what heavyweights who have long aspired to become mayor — like billionaire developer Rick Caruso, L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

The prospect of stricter regulation was weighing on stocks in AI heavyweights such as Elon Musk's SpaceX ahead of the US markets open, after drops for key chipmakers in Asia including Samsung in South Korea.

From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026

Aside from the memory chip heavyweights, Moe also finds several other sectors appealing.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026

The heavyweights pushed and butted each other clumsily.

From "The Contender" by Robert Lipsyte


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