Example Sentences

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This top-heaviness is very much in evidence in the stock market, where many companies are barely profitable and many others are losing money.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 13, 2025

A big reason for the drop in the stock market’s top-heaviness is the dramatic fall for the Big Tech stocks that had come to dominate it.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 12, 2023

The NBA’s top-heaviness can be problematic during the marathon regular season, but Cavaliers v Warriors III is a delicious payoff eight months in the making.

From The Guardian • Jun. 1, 2017

All four No. 1 seeds advancing to the Final Four two years ago was a snoozer to me; it spoke to a certain top-heaviness in college basketball.

From Newsweek • Mar. 15, 2010

A carelessly loaded team was overturned by its own top-heaviness as it was rounding the corner of Twenty-ninth street, crushing beneath its cruel weight the talented young sculptor, Emil Correlli.

From The Masked Bridal by Sheldon, Georgie, Mrs.