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Recent Examples of top-heavy
The current tax breaks for retirement savings are top-heavy, favoring the well-off.
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Teresa Ghilarducci, Forbes.com, 25 Feb. 2026
As currently constructed, this lineup is top-heavy, lefty-leaning and overly reliant on young players who are unproven, injury-prone or both.
—Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 5 Feb. 2026
The district is a bit top-heavy, but could create one of the more competitive district title races.
—Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Feb. 2026
Consider repotting if roots are emerging from drainage holes, if the soil dries out more quickly than before, or if the plant has become top-heavy.
—Rachel Gillett, Martha Stewart, 29 Dec. 2025
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Teresa Ghilarducci, Forbes.com, 25 Feb. 2026
As currently constructed, this lineup is top-heavy, lefty-leaning and overly reliant on young players who are unproven, injury-prone or both.
—Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 5 Feb. 2026
The district is a bit top-heavy, but could create one of the more competitive district title races.
—Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Feb. 2026
Consider repotting if roots are emerging from drainage holes, if the soil dries out more quickly than before, or if the plant has become top-heavy.
—Rachel Gillett, Martha Stewart, 29 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for top-heavy
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Researchers have developed a portable compression sleeve that could replace bulky post-cancer swelling therapy machines with a wearable system about the size of a smartphone.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
21 Mar. 2026
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Stars this bulky are incredibly rare, and only a few with more than 200 solar masses are known.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
20 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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India and China are home to 800 million overweight adults and 360 million with diabetes.—
Tom Chivers,
semafor.com,
19 Mar. 2026
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Similarly, both Citi and KeyBanc Capital Markets upgraded the name to buy and overweight.—
Lisa Kailai Han,
CNBC,
14 Mar. 2026
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You might not have been born with the blonde bombshell’s voluminous curls, but this innovation will get you one step closer to acing the look.—
Stacia Datskovska,
Footwear News,
17 Mar. 2026
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Alba's hair was styled in a voluminous curly blowout with a middle part.—
Christina Perrier,
InStyle,
16 Mar. 2026
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While the attempts to create massy cinema land fine for most parts, Dhawan does not quite emerge as the larger-than-life south-Indian hero set to rule the audience merely with his presence.—
Sweta Kaushal,
Forbes,
28 Dec. 2024
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All objects that have mass interact with other massy objects—that’s called gravitational interaction.—
Wired,
Wired,
6 Nov. 2019
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This year's theme is combating loneliness, which the World Down Syndrome Day website says can have an outsized impact on people living with Down syndrome.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
22 Mar. 2026
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So, much like spicy seasoning, even a pinch of heavy elements can have an outsize effect.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
20 Mar. 2026
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It’s also made of substantial-feeling plastic and metal that can stand up to drops.—
Noah Kaufman,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
20 Mar. 2026
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Joe and Rose Kennedy first rented in the Cape Cod village in 1926 before reportedly purchasing a clapboard house at 50 Marchant Avenue in 1929 for roughly $300,000, a substantial sum at the time.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
20 Mar. 2026
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“Top-heavy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/top-heavy. Accessed 23 Mar. 2026.
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