as in outweighed
to be greater in importance than
proper food and sleep should overweigh all-night partying in your priorities
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Though there have been legitimate reasons for this, such as people with low vision finding the Liquid Glass design of iOS 26 tricky, they are now outweighed, I’d suggest, by the importance of having current protections.—
David Phelan,
Forbes.com,
18 Jan. 2026 -
Any harm that could possibly occur was outweighed by the good that would be achieved.—
Paul Rosenzweig,
The Atlantic,
12 Jan. 2026
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“Overweighed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overweighed. Accessed 28 Jan. 2026.
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