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weight

[weyt] / weɪt /






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“I felt this huge relief and a weight off my shoulders. It made so much sense.”

From Los Angeles Times

Checking up before a tight hairpin—braking late, downshifting with the paddle shifters, turning hard into hairpin corners, the weight of the wheel growing heavy, the little engine piping at full spool.

From The Wall Street Journal

Like most broad stock indexes, the S&P 500 is weighted by market capitalization.

From MarketWatch

Remove the emotional weight of money, and suddenly doing the right thing becomes easy.

From MarketWatch

The weight of these five words crashes down on me.

From Literature