as in outweighs
to be greater in importance than
proper food and sleep should overweigh all-night partying in your priorities
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outweighs
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Fundamental rights are rights the state is not supposed to deprive you of except under circumstances where the public good overwhelmingly outweighs the private harm.—
Louis Menand,
New Yorker,
31 Mar. 2025 -
Van brushes that off; being rescued outweighs all those fears.—
Esther Zuckerman,
New York Times,
28 Mar. 2025
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“Overweighs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overweighs. Accessed 26 Jul. 2025.
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