WEIGHTING Synonyms: 38 Similar and Opposite Words

weighting

verb

present participle of weight

as in loading

to place a weight or burden on weighted the car with a ton of furniture and then headed off for college

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Recent Examples of weighting Large language models synthesize information from across the web, often weighting authority, sentiment and corroboration far beyond what legacy ranking systems emphasized. — Al Sefati, Forbes.com, 12 Mar. 2026 But weighting the draft odds is a delicate business — and one the Bulls remain committed to approaching with a clumsy commitment to competitiveness. — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 9 Mar. 2026 The exponential moving average smooths price trends while weighting recent data more heavily than older prices. — Michael Khouw, CNBC, 27 Oct. 2025 And once on the list, companies are subject to quarterly re-weighting to reflect their relative significance. — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2025 Construction on the Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge began in 2022 with a test involving 96 trucks, weighting around 3,300 tons combined, having been successfully completed on August 25. — James Bickerton, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Sep. 2025 Notably, even after weighting the results to better reflect the city’s demographics, respondents were 53% non-Hispanic white, while the city on the whole is just 37% white. — Danielle Echeverria, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 July 2025

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Riyadh has been diverting about four million barrels a day of crude oil from their east-west pipeline over to Yanbu, loading tankers, many of which are going out the Red Sea, data provided by Lipow showed.

— Lee Ying Shan,Sam Meredith, CNBC, 14 July 2026
Add 1 cup of hydrogen peroxide to the washer drum or the automatic bleach dispenser before loading white clothes into the washer.

— Mary Marlowe Leverette, The Spruce, 14 July 2026

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Yankees star Ben Rice started at first in Kurtz’s place, with Tristan Peters of the Chicago White Sox filling the roster spot vacated by Kurtz.

— Chris Biderman, Sacbee.com, 15 July 2026
His design for Fallingwater therefore suspends the architecture above the fall itself, filling the home constantly with the powerful sound of rushing water.

— Elizabeth Fazzare, Architectural Digest, 14 July 2026