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deadweights

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plural of deadweight

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Use that feedback to ease unnecessary burdens, clarify year-end priorities and align everyone for the year ahead.

— Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 5 Nov. 2026
Running for office means taking on significant personal burdens, like taking time off work, giving up control over your day-to-day life, and taking massive risks with your reputation and future.

— Nicholas Carnes, Time, 4 Nov. 2026

Definition of burdens

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The elasticity of the cloud isn’t available in an air-gapped on-premise environment; hence, the size needs to account for the peak loads.

— Karan Alang, Forbes.com, 6 Nov. 2026
PlusAI is a company working on autonomous trucking solutions with Nvidia, and the sand was in the trailers to simulate freight loads.

— Nick Indge, ArsTechnica, 6 Nov. 2026

Definition of loads

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There’s also a sauna and small steam room (open from 4–11pm) and a fitness room kitted out with weights and yoga mats.

— Irenie Forshaw, TheWeek, 5 Nov. 2026
First, the provider publishes a cryptographic commitment to its model weights, effectively creating a fingerprint of the exact model being used while keeping the weights private.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 4 Nov. 2026

Definition of weights

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Federal officials recently launched a prize competition to reward ideas for controlling the flow of aquatic species into and out of the ballasts of boats that travel among the various lakes and waterways across the United States.

— Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 7 May 2026
Other items from the ship, including the ballasts that served as counterweights for the human cargo, are remaining on display and will be returned to South Africa in two years.

— ABC News, ABC News, 12 Mar. 2026

Definition of ballasts

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Data compiled by Bloomberg shows crude loadings fell from roughly 250,000 barrels per day in August to zero in September, marking the first such instance since the war began in February.

— Melissa Hancock, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2026
Ateios said electrodes at these loadings have already been shipped to a customer.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of loadings

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The final payloads, tailored to the type of platform visiting, attempted to steal browser cookies and, in some cases, Wi-Fi passwords and full mobile device data.

— Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 4 Nov. 2026
Its internal power reserves are intended to support operations for more than 400 hours while continuing to supply external payloads.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 4 Nov. 2026

Definition of payloads

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