top-heavy
Example Sentences
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Broadway, top-heavy with musical parodies and attention-grabbing revivals, is having a strange season by all accounts.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2026
It’s also a top-heavy draft, with a ton of depth in the first round and no clear first overall pick.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2026
That raises the stakes for the February jobs report, as it could drive the top-heavy S&P 500 to finally break through its recent trading range, up or down.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 1, 2026
Maija García’s 25-minute “Jazz Island,” accompanied by resonant jazz segments specially composed by Trinidad-born Etienne Charles, is top-heavy with narrative baggage and light on choreographic coherence.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 30, 2025
When the Great Six inspected my library record and found it top-heavy with adventure and science fiction, they prescribed appropriate doses of Steinbeck, Faulkner, and F. Scott Fitzgerald.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
