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Below, seven options that do all the heavy lifting for your entertainment system.—Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 21 Jan. 2026 Worcestershire sauce, which will do a lot of savory and spice heavy lifting, comes next.—Sam Stone, Bon Appetit Magazine, 20 Jan. 2026 Some economists and experts say that critical thinking and creativity will be more important than ever in the age of artificial intelligence, when a robot can do much of the heavy lifting in coding or research.—Jacqueline Munis, Fortune, 20 Jan. 2026 The solution is to let your keyboard do more of the heavy lifting.—Ken Colburn, AZCentral.com, 19 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for heavy lifting