overweight

Example Sentences

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A bridge in north Wales has closed three times in about 24 hours after suspected overweight vehicles crossed it, causing traffic disruption.

From BBC • May 27, 2026

TA Securities maintains an overweight rating on the Malaysian utilities sector, pegging Tenaga Nasional, Samaiden, Malakoff and Ranhill Utilities as top picks.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 25, 2026

“We continue to like financials and also have a good overweight in consumer-discretionary companies,” says Basak Yavuz, the Goldman fund’s co-manager.

From Barron's • May 20, 2026

The rise has been fueled by urbanization, less healthy diets, more sedentary lifestyles, reduced physical activity, population aging, and increasing rates of overweight and obesity.

From Science Daily • May 19, 2026

By listening to them talk I accumulated a vocabulary of the road, of tires and springs, of overweight.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck