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Kenneth Branagh, the British actor whose career has been built on weighty roles such as Shakespeare's Henry V, is perhaps an unlikely action hero.

From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026

It also helped show that an animated kids series can tackle weighty themes such as war, genocide, imperialism, sexism, propaganda and political corruption in a serialized story and be a hit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

India's top judges often make news for their rulings or pronunciations on weighty matters of law.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

If the test fizzled, “the weighty investment in failure would loom quietly from the sidelines as history unfolded around it.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

I thought about how those weighty biology texts that I had used to press flowers or smooth bent photographs had served other purposes for her.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen

A couple of the disputes are a bit weightier than a question of whether someone’s yard goes to here . . . or to here.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026

The couple are set to return to the presidential residence, but this time Mutharika's in-tray will be far weightier.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2025

Luggage in the first half of the 20th century was much weightier and bulkier, designed for people with the means to have helpers carry their luggage for them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2025

Many are even less charitable in their comprehension of the burden he will inherit, which has only become weightier with time.

From Salon ● Feb. 28, 2024

And I would feel that heavy rock grow weightier on my chest, while I was lying there on my back, still in bed.

From "The Stars Beneath Our Feet" by David Barclay Moore

The city's historically lucrative wholesale and retail trade remains one of its weightiest sectors, accounting for almost 25 percent of GDP in the first nine months of 2024.

From Barron's ● Mar. 1, 2026

For nearly 500 years the Court of Session has considered the thorniest and weightiest matters of the moment.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2023

Opinionpalooza, aka June, aka the end of the Supreme Court term, when the year’s weightiest opinions tend to come out.

From Slate ● Jun. 1, 2023

Admittedly, the lawsuit — essentially, a dispute among insurers over the bill for all that cracked fiberglass and teak — won’t be the weightiest matter heard in federal court in Seattle.

From Seattle Times ● May 28, 2023

I have often, in my chase after mysteries, beaten out, on these leaves, the weightiest ones from the bush.

From Titan: A Romance v. 1 (of 2) by Jean Paul Friedrich Richter