as in outweighing
to be greater in importance than
proper food and sleep should overweigh all-night partying in your priorities
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outweighing
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Think of dark matter as scaffolding for all the luminous, normal stuff out there—with the former outweighing the latter five times over—like a gravitational glue that holds everything else together.—
Joseph Howlett,
Scientific American,
25 Jan. 2026 -
Preliminary revenues came in at 698 million euros, outweighing LSEG poll estimates.—
Hugh Leask,Holly Ellyatt,
CNBC,
19 Jan. 2026
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“Overweighing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overweighing. Accessed 3 Feb. 2026.
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