heaviness
Americannoun
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“As her head of security for more than two decades, a role my father Larry held before me, I have imagined the heaviness of this moment but haven’t truly felt it til now.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026
I arrived in Arizona with a heaviness hanging over me.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
Durian "tastes just as sweet as cake, without the greasiness and heaviness".
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
But that same density can tip the cake toward heaviness — toward something that eats more like dessert than companion.
From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2026
The heaviness hanging over our family was enormous, and my parents were stuck at the event horizon.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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