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[hef-tee] / ˈhɛf ti /


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Volkswagen's "workers have already to accept hefty and painful cuts and now are getting another slap in the face," Christiane Benner told the Wirtschaftswoche weekly.

From Barron's Aug. 23, 2026

Now, there are a handful of other AI companies capturing investor attention as they rake in hefty profits.

From MarketWatch Aug. 23, 2026

The computational and informational resources involved in these calculations are hefty.

From Slate Aug. 21, 2026

Thinking of canceling a travel credit card due to the hefty annual fee?

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

The day before Liyana’s fifteenth birthday, he stepped through the door after work with a hefty bouquet of white roses, saying, “What do you think? Fifteen deserves something—regal!”

From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye

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

The Ibex is built on a Ford F-250 Super Duty, the heftier cousin of the popular F-150 pickup.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 22, 2026

The financial services sector, more closely tied to Tricolor, a subprime auto lender, makes up a heftier 8%.

From Barron's Oct. 23, 2025

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

The Deacon wuz edifyin' in conversation, and he thought, and said, "that my mind was the heftiest one that he had ever met, and he had met hundreds and hundreds of 'em."

From Samantha at Saratoga by Marietta Holley




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