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Example Sentences
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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.
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
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.