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as in burdens
a mass or quantity of something taken up and carried, conveyed, or transported
those books are a heavy weight to have to carry around all day
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as in emphases
a special notice or importance given to something
put extra weight on the matter by putting it at the top of the agenda
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as in bodies
the main or greater part of something as distinguished from its subordinate parts
the weight of the evidence supports my conclusion
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as in influences
the power to direct the thinking or behavior of others usually indirectly
as a critic he has great weight in the theater world
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as in loads
to place a weight or burden on
weighted the car with a ton of furniture and then headed off for college
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Recent Examples of weights
Aaron Heisen, Daily News, 15 Jan. 2026
Some shower curtains are designed with weights, magnets or even suction cups near their base to counteract this problem.
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 14 Jan. 2026
Strength training includes lifting heavy weights, using resistance bands, and performing exercises that target different muscle groups.
—Alexa Mikhail, Flow Space, 14 Jan. 2026
Other thoughtful touches include a canvas tote filled with a yoga kit and mini weights, along with a heating pad atop the comfortable mattress.
—Christina Liao, Vogue, 14 Jan. 2026
Over time, increase the repetitions using light weights, then gradually progress to heavier loads, Forsyth recommended.
—Allison Forsyth, Health, 14 Jan. 2026
Otherwise, life becomes like going to a gym with no weights.
—Arianna Huffington, Time, 14 Jan. 2026
For a more polished finish, Silverton suggests adding small penny weights at the bottom corners to prevent flaring.
—Angelika Pokovba, Martha Stewart, 14 Jan. 2026
Maintaining this flat back position, pull the weights toward your chest, bending at your elbow and keeping your upper arms in line with your back.
—Greg Presto, Outside, 7 Jan. 2026
Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 13 Jan. 2026
The report weights the average price based on the volume of cheeseburger meals sold at each restaurant in order to better measure what customers are actually buying, Lachs said.
—Francesca Pica, jsonline.com, 13 Nov. 2025
Pappalardo, described by police as a White with brown hair and green eyes who weights about 150 lbs.
—Kc Baker, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2025
Eligible users can download the model weights on Hugging Face, OpenAI said.
—Ashley Capoot, CNBC, 29 Oct. 2025
The mechanisms that enable replication—the model weights themselves, the precise optimization subroutines, the engineering tricks that enhance model capabilities—deserve tight custody.
—MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
The Orange County Football Conference weights this season’s results at 65 percent and 2024 at 35 percent.
—Dan Albano, Oc Register, 30 Sep. 2025
This weights each category equally.
—Dom Luszczyszyn, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
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The Los Angeles Chargers answered his email, donating extra footballs, cones, weights and assistance.
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Lockheed Martin weights free cash flow at 40% in determining annual cash bonuses for top executives, and at 25% for annual long-term incentives.
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Lofty cost burdens are a key reason West California’s homeownership is lower – 55% of households own their homes, compared with 64% in inland regions.—
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Balancing beautifully the perspectives, burdens, contributions, and challenges of Utah’s top political leaders, agricultural providers, and scientific thinkers, The Lake captures the intricate complexity that binds these communities together.—
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Congressional committees have pushed back, proposing funding at current levels (albeit with different allocations and emphases).—
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These tendencies come with various emphases and obsessions, but the differences matter less than the common project.—
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In Iranian Muslim culture, dead bodies are typically washed and then covered in white cotton fabric before burial.—
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Separate mobile-camera footage from Fardis, a city about 50 kilometers (31 miles) west of Tehran, showed at least seven bodies covered in blood inside a building.—
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The menu draws on international influences—pork schnitzel, Japanese noodle soup, chimichurri beef fillet—but my favorite dishes were rooted in place, including a simple local braised cabbage and a tangy sorbet made from baobab fruit.—
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The best restaurants in Sicily aren't hard to find—in fact, the ultimate way to explore Sicily’s layered history and mosaic of cultural influences is with the palate.—
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The thieves check the balance when a customer purchases a card and loads funds onto it, then drain the card of funds before the customer can use it, officials said.—
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As its average shopper loads up on 15 items per basket, the company is betting a growing share of those items will be alcohol-free.—
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The strike marks the first time in more than a year that Moscow has unleashed the Oreshnik, which can contain multiple warheads and carry either conventional or nuclear payloads.—
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In an interview with Interesting Engineering, UEL researcher Daehyun Kim explained that SCARABS focuses on exploration reliability rather than experimental payloads.—
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The team examined atomic spacing within the alloy, using HIDRA diffraction data to find how residual stresses distort the material’s crystallographic planes.—
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The uncertainty, grief and compassion at the crux of many of his frank narratives seemingly reflect the trauma of his adolescence — and, by extension, the stresses of navigating today’s sociopolitical landscape as a gay man.—
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Additionally, their cores can (usually) be removed, allowing sealant to be injected through them into tubeless tires.—
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Since then, the plant has produced large volumes of water contaminated with radioactive substances used to cool the reactor cores.—
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“Weights.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/weights. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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