Example Sentences

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"The Swiss economy is currently confronted with inflation and economic risks. By refraining from raising interest rates, the SNB has weighted economic concerns more heavily than inflation risks," said Alessandro Bee, senior economist at UBS.

From Reuters • Sep. 21, 2023

A Hong Kong listing would require FWD to change its dual-class shareholding structure, given it has weighted voting rights.

From Reuters • Nov. 10, 2021

Its collapse, though, has weighted the dice ever further in the favor of the new elite.

From New York Times • May 27, 2021

If she has made blunders in the past, if she has weighted herself with a burden which she must bear to the end, she must but bear the burden bravely, and labour on.

From The Story of an African Farm, a novel by Schreiner, Olive

Dear, dear—I don't know what I am doing since this miserable ache of my heart has weighted and worn upon me so!

From Far from the Madding Crowd by Hardy, Thomas