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[wayt] / weɪt /






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Barclays raises its recommendation on the stock to overweight from equal weight, and increases the price target to 850 pence from 740 pence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

"The burden of escalation would rest squarely upon the aggressor; they and they alone would bear the full moral, political, and strategic weight of deciding whether to do so," he said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

With a leg span of up to one metre and a body weight of more than 4kg, they are also the world's largest land-dwelling crustacean and are able to climb trees.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

Energy was the next-largest sector in the fund, with a 16.7% weight, followed by utilities at 13.3%, materials at about 11.1% and industrials at 8.6%, to round out the top five.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026

Or maybe it was panic that made my chest feel like it was getting smashed by a hundred-pound weight.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

The new model lets users download and customise the parameters, or "weights", that determine how it computes to their own servers.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

The company said that closed models—where developers keep the source code, training data, and underlying model weights hidden—could pose security risks for users because they sometimes block responses to useful cyberdefense requests.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Beam’s weights will be available later this month.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026

Lighter weights can be just as effective if they are lifted more times.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

“I know, Scythe Goddard told me. You really shouldn’t be here—these weights can be dangerous.”

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

"For those countries that are most vulnerable, this is where the consumption basket is heavily weighted towards energy and food, and so indeed it is much much more difficult," she said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

At least 165 of the ships were bottom trawlers, a particularly destructive form of fishing that uses weighted nets that scrape the ocean floor, destroying virtually everything in their path.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

Seoul and Taipei -- both heavily weighted with tech firms -- were closed for holidays.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

That is based on the assumption of a 27% drop in volume and a 24% increase in average selling prices, weighted toward the fourth quarter, they say.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

“That’s what my mom calls it when people carry a lot of worries and anxieties—a weighted mind. Because it can feel heavy. Some people get upgrades for it where I’m from.”

From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly

The ETF’s biggest sector exposure is to financials, with a weighting of 38.3% as recently as Friday, according to fund data on BlackRock’s website.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026

But this takes us back to the index’s weighting by market capitalization.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

Previously, Jarden had a zero risk weighting given negative results from the earlier Elanora and Isabella prospects.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

Tech companies make up a tenth of the Stoxx Europe 600’s weighting, compared with around 40% of the S&P 500.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 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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