WEIGHING (ON OR UPON) Synonyms: 32 Similar Words

weighing (on or upon)

verb

present participle of weigh (on or upon)

as in bearing (down on)

to push steadily against with some force the bulky backpack weighed upon my back uncomfortably

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Most importantly, Schlager is well-versed in the intense, pressing style that his fellow Austrian favours.

— Paul Taylor, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2026
In a black-and-white photo, Maluma can be seen holding his newborn baby in one arm while draping the other around Gomez, pressing his forehead to hers.

— Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2026

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Eventually, Reacher bests Amisha by shoving her out of a window to fall to the street below.

— Chris Klimek, Vulture, 16 Sep. 2026
Last month, Good Good Golf lost its partnership with Callaway and its title sponsorship of a PGA Tour event in the fallout over a video for a new driver that showed a man shoving to the ground a woman who was trying to touch the golf club.

— Jim Vertuno, Chicago Tribune, 15 Sep. 2026

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The result is an entire ocean’s worth of wind and waves all compressing together to get through what is a seriously small bottleneck.

— KC Baker, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2026
The space between those points is the organization’s window for intervention, and AI is compressing it across a growing share of business processes.

— Jay Limburn, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2026

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