heavyweight
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Her team did not include any heavyweight opposition figures.
From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026
The Hormuz closure has only lent greater significance to the Red Sea, the only other maritime route for oil shipments from global heavyweight Saudi Arabia.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
He was impressed by heavyweight boxer Oleksandr Usyk of Ukraine during an Oval Office meeting last month before the Ultimate Fighting Championship cage match at the White House.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
Perhaps the question is no longer who is the better heavyweight but who has declined the least.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
In the final days before the Poughkeepsie Regatta, another big sports story dominated the headlines on sports pages and sometimes on front pages around the country—the story of a heavyweight boxing match.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
She won the inaugural version of the prize in 2024, again beating a field that included Nigerian heavyweights such as Burna Boy and Davido.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
The benchmark index was recently 10.3% lower, with chip-making index heavyweights SK Hynix slumping 13% and Samsung Electronics dropping 12.0%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
The 39-year-old has also netted six and five goals against South American heavyweights Uruguay and Brazil respectively while European oppositions have fared little better.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
In it, he describes the recent correction in the Korean heavyweights, Samsung and SK Hynix, as “both natural and healthy.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 10, 2026
The heavyweights pushed and butted each other clumsily.
From "The Contender" by Robert Lipsyte
