weighted (down)

past tense of weight (down)

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for weighted (down)
Verb
  • Echoing his testimony from the third week of Combs’ New York trial, Nash says Combs also subjected him to violent physical assaults.
    Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Since the start of Russia’s invasion in 2022, Putin has been transparent about his objective—the destruction of Ukraine as an independent nation—and has subjected many people to almost unimaginable suffering in order to achieve it.
    ANDRIY ZAGORODNYUK, Foreign Affairs, 23 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • For most of the year, Salesforce shares have been weighed down by the notion that AI is a threat to the software-as-a-service business model.
    Natasha Abellard, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2025
  • For many readers, like me, TFP is a welcome alternative to the incurious group-think that weighed down The Gray Lady.
    Debra J. Saunders, Oc Register, 13 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Pitching without discomfort from the thumb, back and neck issues that hampered him at various points during the regular season.
    Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
  • While our study dating back to 1984 found that certain environmental contaminants induce T cells that suppress the immune system, further study on such cells was hampered by an inability in the field at large to isolate and characterize these cells.
    Mitzi Nagarkatti, The Conversation, 10 Oct. 2025
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“Weighted (down).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/weighted%20%28down%29. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.

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