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load-bearing

American  
[lohd-bair-ing] / ˈloʊdˌbɛər ɪŋ /

adjective

  1. carrying weight or load in a system or structure.


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"There has been a real trend in recent years towards using raw venues where there are only the load-bearing walls and nothing else," Rod Reynolds, a location scout from the Records Collection company, told AFP.

From Barron's • Jan. 29, 2026

It’s not the uncomfortable reality that our retirement accounts now depend on a load-bearing Nvidia stock to remain moonbound forever.

From Slate • Dec. 26, 2025

Inspectors said there was no permanent damage to shell's load-bearing structures or monitoring systems and some repairs had been carried out on the roof.

From BBC • Dec. 7, 2025

“Nvidia has become the spiritual index of the AI cycle, the load-bearing pillar of the market’s most crowded macro story,” said Stephen Innes, managing partner at SPI Asset Management, in an emailed note Monday.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 17, 2025

She’d start talking about angles and load-bearing joints until my eyes glazed over.

From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan

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