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Recent Examples of weight lifting
Exercise is also great, so running, weight lifting.
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Renée Onque, CNBC, 7 Apr. 2026
But either way, that confession illustrates exactly where the Dolphins are headed going into next week’s start of the offseason training program, which begins with weight lifting and conditioning work.
—Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 31 Mar. 2026
So what’s so great about weight lifting with type 2 diabetes?
—Emily Kay Votruba, EverydayHealth.com, 4 Mar. 2026
Try finding a resistance training class at your gym to get a feel for how weight lifting feels.
—Ariana Yaptangco, Glamour, 26 Jan. 2026
Activities like swimming, cycling, and weight lifting help condition joints and ligaments while reducing repetitive strain.
—Sarah Jividen, Verywell Health, 21 Nov. 2025
Activities like low-impact cardio (jogging or walking), strength training (weight lifting or weight-bearing exercises) and practicing Tai Chi or yoga will help with flexibility and balance.
—Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 28 Oct. 2025
Peterson told The Star his typical day starts with weight lifting and practice.
—Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 23 Oct. 2025
Throughout the day, as the professor’s thoughts cascade from Dostoyevsky to YouTube fitness influencers, nearly every one of Castro’s acerbic, unfiltered paragraphs contains a bristling insight about literature, weight lifting, or academic politics.
—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
Renée Onque, CNBC, 7 Apr. 2026
But either way, that confession illustrates exactly where the Dolphins are headed going into next week’s start of the offseason training program, which begins with weight lifting and conditioning work.
—Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 31 Mar. 2026
So what’s so great about weight lifting with type 2 diabetes?
—Emily Kay Votruba, EverydayHealth.com, 4 Mar. 2026
Try finding a resistance training class at your gym to get a feel for how weight lifting feels.
—Ariana Yaptangco, Glamour, 26 Jan. 2026
Activities like swimming, cycling, and weight lifting help condition joints and ligaments while reducing repetitive strain.
—Sarah Jividen, Verywell Health, 21 Nov. 2025
Activities like low-impact cardio (jogging or walking), strength training (weight lifting or weight-bearing exercises) and practicing Tai Chi or yoga will help with flexibility and balance.
—Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 28 Oct. 2025
Peterson told The Star his typical day starts with weight lifting and practice.
—Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 23 Oct. 2025
Throughout the day, as the professor’s thoughts cascade from Dostoyevsky to YouTube fitness influencers, nearly every one of Castro’s acerbic, unfiltered paragraphs contains a bristling insight about literature, weight lifting, or academic politics.
—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for weight lifting
Noun
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Instead, use safe body mechanics, which can mean squatting to pick up a weight rather than bending over.—
Hadia Zainab,
CNN Money,
2 Apr. 2026
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Sasaki said through an interpreter after he was lifted from the game that something felt off about his upper-body mechanics.—
Jack Vita,
Los Angeles Times,
3 Mar. 2026
Noun
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After her gymnastics career, Strug went on to work as an elementary school teacher and in several positions in the White House and Justice Department.—
Brent Lang,
Variety,
10 Apr. 2026
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Olympic gymnastics gold medalist Bart Conner is 68.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
9 Mar. 2026
Noun
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What does all this have to do, pray, with a woman pouring milk from a jug, or reading a letter, or patiently making lace—the kind of activity, that is, pursued in Vermeer’s art?—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
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Going from one activity to another may be hard as well for children living with trauma.—
Dr. Andrew Garner,
Boston Herald,
12 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The modern gym culture was born on Muscle Beach, institutionalized by Gold’s Gym in Venice, and later globalized by Jane Fonda’s aerobics empire.—
Markos Kounalakis,
Mercury News,
8 Apr. 2026
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Over an ebullient little bouncy bit of house, an aerobics instructor encourages movement as Idehen encourages Movement politics.—
Jesse Dorris,
Pitchfork,
25 Mar. 2026
Noun
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That conditioning early in life can leave a long and lasting negative impact on women, Grede says.—
Krysta Escobar,
CNBC,
14 Apr. 2026
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Weiss closed in August after it was terminated from the federal Medicare program following failures of the hospital’s air conditioning system that forced the hospital to transfer all its patients elsewhere.—
Lisa Schencker,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Apr. 2026
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Joseph Baena's grand debut on the bodybuilding circuit just got grander.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
5 Apr. 2026
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On Saturday, April 4, the 28-year-old son of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Mildred Patricia Baena achieved a win in a second bodybuilding federation.—
Desiree Anello,
PEOPLE,
5 Apr. 2026
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