weighting

present participle of weight

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of weighting 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 But another fast-growing alternative is the SPDR S&P Semiconductor ETF (XSD), which differentiates itself with an equal-weighting approach to stocks held in its underlying index. Krysta Escobar, CNBC, 19 Sep. 2025
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  • First steps in that process occurred last week, when the Chokai practiced loading dummy Tomahawk munitions into its vertical launch cells.
    Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2025
  • In two of them — July 17, 2005, and July 5, 2008 — the Red Sox actually scored a run before loading the bases … and before Mariano Rivera then escaped all that trouble.
    Jayson Stark, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
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  • Rite Aid first filed for bankruptcy in October 2023, largely because of competition from bigger chains and its debt pile, which topped $4 billion due to expensive legal battles for allegedly filling unlawful opioid prescriptions.
    Auzinea Bacon, CNN Money, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Doing things for me would be washing my car or filling up my tank.
    Virginia Chamlee, PEOPLE, 4 Oct. 2025

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“Weighting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/weighting. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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