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Recent Examples of weight lifting
Sometimes the transition isn’t about an entire lifestyle change, but about adding weight lifting and other strength building techniques into your existing workouts, like yoga or Pilates.
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Mara Santilli, Flow Space, 8 Oct. 2025
Throughout the day, as the professor’s thoughts cascade from Dostoyevsky to YouTube fitness influencers, nearly every one of Castro’s acerbic, unfiltered paragraphs contains a bristling insight about literature, weight lifting, or academic politics.
—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
An alienated professor takes up weight lifting and ranting in Jordan Castro’s perceptive new novel, Muscle Man.
—Jeremy Gordon, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2025
Mara Santilli, Flow Space, 8 Oct. 2025
Throughout the day, as the professor’s thoughts cascade from Dostoyevsky to YouTube fitness influencers, nearly every one of Castro’s acerbic, unfiltered paragraphs contains a bristling insight about literature, weight lifting, or academic politics.
—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
An alienated professor takes up weight lifting and ranting in Jordan Castro’s perceptive new novel, Muscle Man.
—Jeremy Gordon, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for weight lifting
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Adjust settings to accommodate your body mechanics and ensure a comfortable range of motion.—
Sixteen Ramos,
USA Today,
12 Aug. 2025
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His background is in sports science, so body mechanics are important to him.—
Jordan Campbell,
New York Times,
9 Aug. 2025
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Engler explained that the outing followed gymnastics practice.—
Daniella Gray,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Sep. 2025
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Zlata participated in her first gymnastics competition in November 2023, according to her Instagram.—
Alexandra Hurtado,
PEOPLE,
30 Sep. 2025
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He has not been seen in public since March, but the investigation of his activities had not previously been disclosed by Chinese authorities.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
18 Oct. 2025
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Algorithmic programs developed to monitor such activity took these moves as signs of further downside risk, further amplifying what already was a dramatic and widespread downturn.—
Sean Stein Smith,
Forbes.com,
18 Oct. 2025
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Some were assigned cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and others were assigned to exercise activities such as aerobics, swimming, and cycling in addition to their standard care for their condition for 12 weeks.—
Audrey Noble,
Vogue,
8 Oct. 2025
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Before opening it, Madsen worked in the fitness industry, first as an aerobics instructor before evolving into a personal trainer, boot camp instructor and step aerobics instructor.—
Carlos Rico,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 Sep. 2025
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During the 2023 negotiations between global shipping giant UPS and the Teamsters union, which represents more than 300,000 UPS workers, getting air conditioning for package cars quickly became a sticking point in shaping the contract.—
Olivia Evans,
Louisville Courier Journal,
21 Oct. 2025
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Keep your money tree away from drafty windows or heating and air conditioning vents.—
Leanne Potts,
Better Homes & Gardens,
21 Oct. 2025
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According to The Tribune, Ghuman also previously competed in Arnold Schwarzenegger's Arnold Classic bodybuilding competition.—
Greta Bjornson,
PEOPLE,
10 Oct. 2025
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The case drew international attention over allegations that Smollett had allegedly staged the attack and paid two bodybuilding brothers to pretend to be his assailants.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
26 Sep. 2025
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“Weight lifting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/weight%20lifting. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.
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