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[weyt] / weɪt /






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And if you aren’t pulling your weight, you’re out.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 15, 2026

The argument is over how close the system is to a threshold - and how much weight to give to each kind of evidence: ancient climate records, modern observations, statistical warnings and complex climate models.

From BBC Jul. 14, 2026

News of cyclosporiasis and the resulting diarrhea have spread widely on social media in recent days with some saying that it could give GLP-1s a run for its money in the weight loss realm.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 14, 2026

The growing popularity of GLP-1 medications such as Ozempic, Wegovy, and Rybelsus has largely been driven by their ability to help people lose weight, improve blood sugar control, and reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease.

From Science Daily Jul. 14, 2026

“That’s the most important monkey of the whole works. He’s worth his weight in gold. They’re offering a hundred dollar reward for him.”

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

So Ohashi started working with a personal trainer, lifting weights for three hours a day for four days a week.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 10, 2026

"My town centre is about four stops away from me so I walk there, then I do my shopping and load my backpack and carry it back so I'm doing weights too."

From BBC Jul. 3, 2026

But if some people begin the race far behind the starting line bearing weights that others don’t, government can’t pretend that the race is unfettered or fair, and neither should we.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 16, 2026

Despite maintaining similar body weights, mice on the sucrose-free diet experienced several negative health changes compared with the control group.

From Science Daily Jun. 14, 2026

“Then you’re settling for lighter weights, because the answer to that should be It kills me.”

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali

"Going forward, though, I believe the risks continue to be strongly weighted toward higher inflation," she warned.

From Barron's Jul. 15, 2026

She’ll go for a 30-minute walk outside wearing a weighted vest, UV protectant facial mask and sun hat, then spend another 30 in her home gym.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 13, 2026

But Cook argues that a tax like this would be heavily weighted on London and the south-east of England, where house prices are generally higher than the rest of the country.

From BBC Jul. 10, 2026

This is the ratio of prices to rolling consensus 12-month earnings-per-share estimates among analysts polled by FactSet, weighted by the companies’ market capitalization.

From MarketWatch Jul. 7, 2026

Polybotes jabbed his trident and swung his weighted net, but Scipio was almost as nimble as Arion.

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan

Looking ahead, asset quality will be a key area to watch as supply chain-related inflation risks build, while the proposed expansion of the Malaysia’s benchmark Kuala Lumpur Composite Index could temporarily reduce the sector’s weighting.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 8, 2026

The index also had a 45% weighting toward information-technology stocks as of June 30, compared with 37.1% for the S&P 500 as of Monday, according to FactSet data.

From MarketWatch Jul. 7, 2026

But the strategists also see this AI tailwind reducing following the rebalance of the sector’s weighting in the index from 15% to 7%.

From MarketWatch Jul. 2, 2026

Ng estimates that the banking sector could see the largest weighting reduction of 623-699 basis points under the proposed expansion.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 1, 2026

It was barely light outside, but the spring humidity had already seeped into their shack, weighting down their clothes.

From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson




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