lightweight

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Over the past 40 years, an eclectic mix of financiers from Dubai to Taiwan invested hundreds of millions of dollars in developing the plane maker’s lightweight business jets.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026

Because these planets are so low in density, scientists suspect they are made largely of lightweight gases like hydrogen and helium, along with additional elements.

From Science Daily • Mar. 18, 2026

“It’s a little bit complicated when they put an image in your head and now you’re stuck with it,” he sings in “Paint by Numbers,” which pretty handily demonstrates how lightweight the introspection is here.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 9, 2026

In Topuria's UFC absence, Arizona native Gaethje won an interim lightweight title, but will now have a chance to capture the undisputed championship.

From Barron's • Mar. 8, 2026

During a May conference at Caltech honoring the visiting Niels Bohr, he alluded to the lightweight neutron while describing the disintegration of eight heavy targets, up to aluminum, by deuton bombardment.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik