Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for weighting (down)
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This will make the snow wetter and heavier for a time, potentially weighing down what has already accumulated.—
Terry Eliasen,
CBS News,
25 Jan. 2026 -
The breathable mesh upper and cushioned sole support long stretches on your feet without weighing down your carry-on.—
Samantha Leal,
Travel + Leisure,
13 Jan. 2026
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Improbably, by rejecting the poetic ambitions of a young boy and subjecting him as a Black man in America to all manner of everyday micro and macro racist transgressions, the world gained a master storyteller.—
Lou Fancher,
Mercury News,
27 Jan. 2026
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Between 1995 and 2015, both publications—which have a combined circulation of some eighty thousand Canadian family doctors and pharmacists—regularly ran columns from the Motherisk team without subjecting them to peer review.—
Ben Taub,
New Yorker,
26 Jan. 2026
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The wintry blast, after hampering malls and stores Sunday, is making travel challenging Monday with roads still presenting treacherous conditions, coated by a mixture of frozen precipitation.—
Brian Womack,
Dallas Morning News,
26 Jan. 2026
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Elon Musk warned the biggest issue hampering AI advancement in the United States is a problem Chinese competitors don’t have.—
Sasha Rogelberg,
Fortune,
22 Jan. 2026
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Deputies Christian Anderson, Zachary Dalton, Christopher Bearss, Kristin Harris and Miguel Espinoza were involved in restraining Camacho.—
Alex Riggins,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Jan. 2026
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Last week, videos ricocheted across social media showing federal immigration agents restraining a man inside a Walmart in Minnesota and detaining individuals at the entrance of a Target.—
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld,
Fortune,
21 Jan. 2026
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“Weighting (down).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/weighting%20%28down%29. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.
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