hefty
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His team also pocketed a hefty sum -- several million dollars -- for travelling to Luanda in November 2025 for a friendly marking Angola's 50th Independence Day celebrations.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
However, it comes at a hefty price tag, with a minimum cost of £130,000.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
Oil sands can take years to develop and require hefty upfront capital.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
But another hefty cost for Apple relates to the Duo’s expensive display.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
Ray Anderson and Brian Witzke spend their working lives up here amid disordered heaps of papers, journals, furled charts, and hefty specimen stones.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
However, it does come with a heftier fee of 1.4%, partly reflecting the cost of storing the metal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
“Chonkers” is a Steller sea lion, which is a heftier variety of the species, compared to his California sea lion counterparts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2026
We’re facing problems heftier than choosing whether to watch a morally dubious show about a magical boy and his friends.
From Salon ● Apr. 2, 2026
Heading into this year, some Wall Street analysts expected heftier tax refunds as a result of President Donald Trump’s so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act to free up consumer spending.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 30, 2026
People were everywhere; some working in the quarry itself, others scattered about the hillside; the heftier among the men splitting boulders, the women and children chipping fragments off the larger stones.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
The heftiest chunk of her pay comes from a nontaxable stipend travel nurses earn to cover their living expenses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026
Consuming such large amounts of food can lead to massive weight increases, with the spring cubs like 806 Jr seeing some of the heftiest jumps.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2023
In other words, like sauropods in general, the heftiest sauropods occupied somewhat different ecological niches from one another.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 15, 2023
The generalized fourth-power law explains why road damage is disproportionately inflicted by the heftiest vehicles.
From Slate ● Jun. 28, 2023
“For a little guy, you’re the heftiest eater I ever saw.”
From The Radio Boys Rescue the Lost Alaska Expedition by Gerald Breckenridge
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