Thesaurus results for WEIGHED (UPON)

weighed (upon)

verb

past tense of weigh (upon)

as in bore (down)

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compressed

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To close deals, some US homebuilders are resorting to price cuts and mortgage rate buy downs to attract buyers, squeezing profit margins that are already compressed by high raw material, labor, and financing expenses.

— , CNBC, 29 Sep. 2026
An underlying crystal compressed the material and helped stabilize its atomic arrangement.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 26 Sep. 2026

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