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"Charging parents just to sit with their children is a rip-off, plain and simple," he added, and being "hit with a hefty fee for a simple spelling mistake on a booking form isn't right either".

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

In decades past, mom-and-pop traders had to call their broker and pay a hefty commission on every trade.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

But another hefty cost for Apple relates to the Duo’s expensive display.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026

Joanne Flickinger sued Schwarzenegger for negligent driving which she claimed led to the biking accident that landed her with hefty medical bills.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

One morning the code words were still being relayed down the long shed when a rather hefty Aufseherin stepped through the door.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

“Not Suitable for Work,” premiering Tuesday on Hulu, is an amiable, sweet-tempered romantic ensemble comedy with a heftier than usual emphasis on professional ambition.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2026

And yet, there’s a joke circulating on Wall Street that if Mamdani hadn’t mentioned Griffin by name, the hedge-fund manager, worth an estimated $48 billion, probably wouldn’t have noticed his heftier tax bill.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 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

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