1
as in massive
having great weight
that's a pretty hefty book bag for a tiny person like you
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as in large
of a size greater than average of its kind
received a hefty donation from the local business association for holiday lights along Main Street
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as in powerful
strongly and heavily built
hefty since childhood, he became a champion wrestler
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Recent Examples of hefty
This archival Gucci motif is shown off via hefty gemstones.
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India Brown, Robb Report, 8 July 2025
Earlier this year, Judge Michael Shultz dismissed Peterson’s defamation lawsuit against T.I. and Tiny, noting her failure to pay the aforementioned hefty sum.
—Demicia Inman, VIBE.com, 7 July 2025
The movie has still not earned back its hefty budget of $200 million, and will need to keep drawing viewers to theaters in the upcoming weeks to make a profit based off box office sales.
—Zachary Folk, Forbes.com, 29 June 2025
The Canadian government also retaliated later on Friday, placing a steel quota on some imports, with a hefty 50% tariff on products that exceed that quota.
—Rebecca Schneid, Time, 29 June 2025
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India Brown, Robb Report, 8 July 2025
Earlier this year, Judge Michael Shultz dismissed Peterson’s defamation lawsuit against T.I. and Tiny, noting her failure to pay the aforementioned hefty sum.
—Demicia Inman, VIBE.com, 7 July 2025
The movie has still not earned back its hefty budget of $200 million, and will need to keep drawing viewers to theaters in the upcoming weeks to make a profit based off box office sales.
—Zachary Folk, Forbes.com, 29 June 2025
The Canadian government also retaliated later on Friday, placing a steel quota on some imports, with a hefty 50% tariff on products that exceed that quota.
—Rebecca Schneid, Time, 29 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hefty
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Some donors continue to feel bitter about the massive amounts of money spent by Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign and the Biden/Harris aligned super PAC Future Forward.—
Max Tani,
semafor.com,
14 July 2025
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This was a massive premiere for Paramount+, combining the charismatic Billy Bob Thornton with a traditionally blue collar Taylor Sheridan storyline.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
14 July 2025
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Cannon told the publication, citing how Jones reportedly left each of his children large inheritances.—
Hannah Dailey,
Billboard,
15 July 2025
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Lachlan MacLean, 27, was washed overboard after getting hit by a large wave during the brothers' sail from Peru to Sydney.—
Kimberlee Speakman,
People.com,
15 July 2025
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Instead, aboard the spacecraft will be twin NASA satellites that will orbit Earth in tandem while studying how the sun's powerful activity can disrupt our planet's magnetosphere.—
Eric Lagatta,
AZCentral.com,
22 July 2025
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Multimodal Integration: Bridging Vision And Language Integrating vision with natural language understanding has led to powerful multimodal models that reason across modalities.—
Rahul Gudise,
Forbes.com,
21 July 2025
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The outages came after monsoon storms moved across the state, bringing heavy rain, wind and flash flooding risk.—
Sasha Hupka,
AZCentral.com,
23 July 2025
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Recent heavy rains likely contributed to the dam failure.—
Jalen Williams,
Freep.com,
23 July 2025
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To unwind the settlement because of textual ambiguity could cause sizable harm.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
15 July 2025
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The hardest trays to install use a sizable collection of pieces and parts and require you to drill holes into your desk.—
BestReviews,
Chicago Tribune,
14 July 2025
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Insomniac’s portfolio includes the mighty EDC Las Vegas and a long list of of other global festivals and club shows, while Tomorrowland is behind its namesake festival in Belgium, the first weekend of which begins this Friday, July 18.—
Katie Bain,
Billboard,
14 July 2025
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The lodge sits at the end of the North Rim’s only road and foregrounds visitors’ first views of Arizona’s geological wonder, a canyon shaped over millions of years by the Colorado River’s mighty flows.—
Christian Thorsberg,
Smithsonian Magazine,
14 July 2025
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My jaw was on the floor of such a considerable cosign.—
Ilana Kaplan,
People.com,
18 July 2025
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When pushed to Wild Life Extreme, the Dell 16 Plus maintained a considerable lead over the Lenovo Yoga 7.—
Brian Westover,
PC Magazine,
17 July 2025
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These hefty meatloaf sandwiches are juicy, very beefy, and crowned with a sweet ketchup glaze.—
Ann Taylor Pittman,
Southern Living,
10 June 2025
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This is a beefy AI workstation with an Nvidia GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra Desktop Superchip, cramming server-grade Grace Blackwell hardware into a single motherboard.—
Brian Westover,
PC Magazine,
24 May 2025
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“Hefty.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hefty. Accessed 25 Jul. 2025.
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