heft
Example Sentences
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UBS took over Credit Suisse with government backing, giving it more heft globally but making it a behemoth in its home country.
Yet, by one important measure, China’s global heft is shrinking.
I picked it up, hefted it, turned it over and over.
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It weighed about half a ton, but Glenn needed very little help from me to heft it all the way into the schoolhouse.
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The achievements come despite lukewarm reviews for the record, with The Telegraph saying it had "all the emotional heft of a perfume advert".
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.