weighted
Americanadjective
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having additional weight.
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burdened.
weighted with sorrow.
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adjusted or adapted to a representative value, especially in determining the value of a legislator's vote as proportionate to the population of that legislator's constituency.
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Seoul and Taipei -- both heavily weighted with tech firms -- were closed for holidays.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
At least 165 of the ships were bottom trawlers, a particularly destructive form of fishing that uses weighted nets that scrape the ocean floor, destroying virtually everything in their path.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
One man rides a draft horse dragging a wooden harrow, weighted down by a boulder, to break up the soil.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
We will hold this put as long as the weighted put-call ratio for USO is on a sell signal.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
She was on her own, weighted down with the staggering burden of sole responsibility for keeping her children and herself alive.
From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson
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