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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
Fittingly, the everything store is a great place to find gifts for everyone on your list—including yourself—at a hefty discount.
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Malia Griggs, Glamour, 14 Oct. 2025
Tallinn’s Baltic Event Co-Production Market – an industry sidebar to the Black Nights Film Festival – has unveiled exclusively to Variety the strong line up of 15 European titles from 13 countries competing for the hefty €20,000 ($23,200) Eurimages Co-Production Development Award.
—Annika Pham, Variety, 13 Oct. 2025
Building out that much infrastructure requires a hefty amount of new energy.
—Jordan Novet, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2025
Redford shared in a September 26 Instagram video, under her account @linaredford, that Sinbad's weight had taken a hefty toll.
—Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
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Malia Griggs, Glamour, 14 Oct. 2025
Tallinn’s Baltic Event Co-Production Market – an industry sidebar to the Black Nights Film Festival – has unveiled exclusively to Variety the strong line up of 15 European titles from 13 countries competing for the hefty €20,000 ($23,200) Eurimages Co-Production Development Award.
—Annika Pham, Variety, 13 Oct. 2025
Building out that much infrastructure requires a hefty amount of new energy.
—Jordan Novet, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2025
Redford shared in a September 26 Instagram video, under her account @linaredford, that Sinbad's weight had taken a hefty toll.
—Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hefty
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The Red Ghost was said to be a massive, red-haired camel with a skeletal rider strapped to its back.—
Tiffany Acosta,
AZCentral.com,
17 Oct. 2025
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Relying solely on Amazon’s admittedly massive reach would be both a lifeline and a painful concession.—
Mara Weinraub,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
17 Oct. 2025
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Doorman highlights more recent scholarship that argues that this is an oversimplification of what were larger theoretical differences between the movement’s two founders.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
15 Oct. 2025
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Decades of mismanagement, underinvestment and corruption have strained the power grid of Iraq, which is OPEC's second-largest oil producer after Saudi Arabia.—
Emma Graham,
CNBC,
15 Oct. 2025
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One of two vice-chairmen of the commission, the general is the third-most powerful commander of the People’s Liberation Army and has been considered a close associate of President Xi Jinping, the army’s commander-in-chief.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
18 Oct. 2025
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The powerful currents of flash floods can carry drivers off the road.—
KANSAS CITY STAR WEATHER BOT,
Kansas City Star,
18 Oct. 2025
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But more psychologists and mental health practitioners are working to address the ways the disease—with its constant demands to manage insulin and blood glucose levels—takes a heavy toll on the mind.—
Lauren J. Young,
Scientific American,
14 Oct. 2025
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Separating a single photon has been described as a feat equivalent to differentiating between the sound of a single grain of sand falling while heavy rains and lightning strikes occur.—
Abhishek Bhardwaj,
Interesting Engineering,
14 Oct. 2025
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That’s not a real sizable business for us.—
Evan Clark,
Footwear News,
14 Oct. 2025
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Other models, such as the flagship of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, also featured sizable errors, the official said.—
Andrew Freedman,
CNN Money,
14 Oct. 2025
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Dreamfest always gets huge-name acts — with past participants including Foo Fighters, Red Hot Chili Peppers and U2 — and this year’s fandango not only featured mighty Metallica but rising pop star Benson Boone, who performed across the street from Chase on a stage erected at Bayfront Park.—
Jim Harrington,
Mercury News,
16 Oct. 2025
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Meanwhile, big tech companies like Google, Microsoft, IBM and OpenAI have all joined the small-but-mighty club, with models that are a fraction of the size of their bigger counterparts.—
Sharon Goldman,
Fortune,
15 Oct. 2025
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Charismatic and successful military leaders like Douglas MacArthur, who refused to follow President Harry Truman’s orders during the Korean War, will always hold considerable power due to the prestige and dominance that militaries bring.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
18 Oct. 2025
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In addition, New York City and Philadelphia also faced tornado watches and considerable rainfall, creating risks of flash flooding and travel delays.—
Hollie Silverman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Oct. 2025
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McAvoy and Lindholm played just 50 and 17 games, respectively; Brandon Carlo got dealt to division rival Toronto; Zadorov never quite lived up to his beefy new deal; and youngster Lohrei struggled with too heavy of a load too soon as the carnage unfolded around him.—
Harman Dayal,
New York Times,
7 Oct. 2025
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For an even beefier gaming machine, this one from CyberPowerPC ships with a processor that's one of the fastest gaming chips on the market, easily blowing through benchmarking in our review.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
7 Oct. 2025
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“Hefty.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hefty. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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