Example Sentences

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Le Roux and team highlight the potential for a swing back toward large caps because institutional investors tend to be “value-driven and slow-moving,” so overweighting the cheaper small cap index was unavoidable.

From MarketWatch • May 5, 2026

“In effect, we are recommending underweighting the Magnificent 7 and overweighting the ‘Impressive 493’ in an S&P 500 portfolio,” Yardeni said.

From Barron's • Dec. 8, 2025

"Some sovereign wealth funds are overweighting China," he said.

From Reuters • Oct. 10, 2023

This is exactly what would be expected if hallucinations in psychosis depended on an overweighting of perceptual priors so that they overwhelmed sensory prediction errors, unmooring perceptual best guesses from their causes in the world.

From Scientific American • Aug. 27, 2019

The front wheels are sinking faster, overweighting the harness.

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes