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The market pullback offers an opportunity to rebalance portfolios, potentially trimming overweighted tech stocks and rotating into small- or mid-cap and value stocks.

From Barron's • Nov. 18, 2025

To understand why, consider what happened in 2002, when board members of the school decided that the trust’s portfolio was dangerously overweighted in Hershey stock.

From New York Times • Jul. 30, 2016

Then there is his character, a relentlessly lively presence in a team otherwise overweighted towards introspection.

From BBC • Dec. 22, 2013

France had a final attack which ended when Michalak overweighted his chip after another Picamoles surge and both teams will go into the final weekend in danger of finishing with the wooden spoon.

From The Guardian • Mar. 9, 2013

Since the canoe is as round-bottomed as the trunk from which it was carved, the least imbalance in weight distribution tips the canoe toward the overweighted side.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond