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overweight

[oh-ver-weyt, oh-ver-weyt, oh-ver-weyt] / ˈoʊ vərˈweɪt, ˈoʊ vərˌweɪt, ˌoʊ vərˈweɪt /


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Guernsey's Healthier Weight Strategy estimated more than 57% of adults in the bailiwick are overweight or obese, while it found almost a third of Year 5 children were living with excess weight.

From BBC Jul. 14, 2026

It also maintains the sector’s overweight rating, naming Muangthai Capital and Krungthai Card as its top picks.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 13, 2026

But she brushed off the barbs, saying: "I am toothy, dumpy, ugly, overweight, a spinster – what the hell."

From BBC Jul. 10, 2026

However, Hong Leong notes recent hospital listings have largely run its course and investors are now focusing on company fundamentals, downgrading its rating on the sector to neutral from overweight.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 9, 2026

You’d find the high school phenoms running circles around the overweight has-beens, guys who’d effortlessly played above-the-rim years ago now trying to catch their breath and salvage what was left of their once-stylish games.

From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore

Instead, its biggest overweights are in defensive sectors that have also held up well during the recent sell off.

From Barron's Apr. 1, 2026

Their overweights are financials, real estate, materials, healthcare and energy and communications services and utilities are underweights, while tech and industrials are market weights.

From MarketWatch Dec. 3, 2025

He recently increased his overweights in cyclical sectors such as financials and homebuilders.

From Reuters Jan. 5, 2022

If she overweights these achievements, it may be because people are so disinclined to give her any credit.

From The Guardian Apr. 28, 2020

But for us the past overweights the present; we cannot, if we would, get rid of the burden of it.

From The Meaning of Good—A Dialogue by Dickinson, G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes)

Managers overweighted both investment-grade corporate bonds and mortgage-backed securities in credit and underweighted Japanese government bonds, expecting that the Bank of Japan would raise rates.

From Barron's Feb. 26, 2026

If a training data has an overrepresentation of any gender or ethnicity, the features that distinguish that group may be overweighted.

From New York Times Nov. 6, 2018

Maybe they overweighted cost of living, climate and activities too much.

From Forbes Sep. 5, 2014

Then there is his character, a relentlessly lively presence in a team otherwise overweighted towards introspection.

From BBC Dec. 22, 2013

Since the canoe is as round-bottomed as the trunk from which it was carved, the least imbalance in weight distribution tips the canoe toward the overweighted side.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Are investing algorithms flawed because they are likely overweighting historically atypical data?

From Barron's Apr. 15, 2026

Bank of America strategists are overweighting financials and healthcare along with materials but are keeping tech stocks at market weight, citing concerns over an artificial-intelligence bubble.

From MarketWatch Dec. 8, 2025

"Some sovereign wealth funds are overweighting China," he said.

From Reuters Oct. 10, 2023

This is exactly what would be expected if hallucinations in psychosis depended on an overweighting of perceptual priors so that they overwhelmed sensory prediction errors, unmooring perceptual best guesses from their causes in the world.

From Scientific American Aug. 27, 2019

The front wheels are sinking faster, overweighting the harness.

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes




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