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weighted

(= leaden) made heavy or weighted down with weariness his leaden arms weighted eyelids adjusted to reflect value or proportion votes weighted according to the size of constituencies a law weighted in favor of landlords a weighted average

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  • What words describe something that has been made heavy?

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Simple sentences

He is weighted down with various cares.

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A weighted coffin was buried.
He wasn't weighted either.
Your lids are getting weighted.
Killed Simp Dixon over in Cotton Gin weighted him down with lead.
Are you sure we're not weighted down too heavily?
His gold weighted 28 taels.
Suspended 70 feet in the air, the large weighted gold ball swings back and forth due to the rotation of the Earth, knocking over pins that equal the time of the day.
I must admit the dossier was heavily weighted against you. He didn't say anything about your accomplishments or any decent thing you've ever done.
He's a freak, and should be weighted accordingly.
He had in his hand a heavy stick weighted with lead and his scarf was found in the dead man's hand.
The one he weighted down.
A weighted stick, club, something like that.
Prospect of a fight, of course, with the odds unfairly weighted in my favour.
I weighted it with a heavy chain.
Except for the fact he'll be slightly weighted down with cement.
We had to learn how to walk with lead - weighted shoes on the seabed and to withstand the pressures of the water's depth.
The pedals are weighted. You won't be able to go very fast.
A chimp can sometimes outmaneuver a hungry leopard but not when that chimp is weighted down, as Judy was.
Weighted, it can crack a skull like this.
I must admit the dossier was heavily weighted against you.
It wasn't exactly a smooth flyer before we weighted her down.
It's mercury weighted.
Her body was the only one he weighted down.
And so it goes, that Galit Biron, whose weighted average comes close to 37, thinks exactly the same way as Elinor Galash, whose average is 107.
They're weighted with authority.
The trousers were weighted round the waistband to make sure they fell down to the ankles in one movement.
I took it, weighted it and dumped it.
His feet are weighted. His hands are tied.
The burial with weighted feet has meted out to traitors in the same campaign. My congratulations Bell.
We weighted him down pretty damn good but the water just coughed him back up.
Weighted.
My fight-or-flight response is heavily weighted towards flight.
Not offhand, but if I run into. any moderately weighted whores in my travels, I'll let you know.

News and current affairs

Juncker came out ahead in the MEP count for only one reason: he obtained his votes in small countries, and votes are de facto weighted by country size.
And, while weighted majorities can overrule it on some issues, everyone acknowledges that little can be done in the eurozone unless Germany agrees.
Regulators are already talking about imposing leverage ratios, as well as limits on risk-weighted assets.
Over the past six years, the value of the trade-weighted dollar has fallen by more than a quarter, as the US has continued to rack up historically unprecedented trade deficits.
Barro should be using a weighted average of his spending multiplier of 0.6 and his tax multiplier of 1.1 to get a multiplier of 0.9.
Phrased in the cold language of natural selection, blood relatives are worth helping in direct proportion to their genetic (blood) relatedness, weighted by how great a benefit they received.
The site shows a global index for house prices that is rising, on a GDP-weighted basis, as fast as during the boom that preceded the 2008 crisis, though not yet reaching the 2006 record level.
All financial decisions would thus continue to be taken by the existing Executive Board, with weighted voting reflecting the financial contributions of member countries.
Under the method adopted three years ago at the EU's Nice summit, each member state has a certain number of votes, weighted according to population, but small countries are protected by having proportionally more votes than big countries.
The proposed new system would do away with weighted votes.
The euro's dizzying trade-weighted ascent over the past year is, indeed, exacerbating near-term pressures within the EU.
Investors remain willing to finance the US at rock-bottom interest rates, and the nominal trade-weighted index of the dollar has not collapsed.
Democracy means many things, but at its core it requires that people choose their rulers and that votes be weighted equally.
Long-term interest rates on any given date could be explained quite well as a certain weighted average of the last 18 quarters of inflation and the last 18 quarters of short-term real interest rates.
So, on an overall trade-weighted basis, the renminbi is substantially higher relative to the currencies with which it competes.
In Germany, for example, interest rates on public debt up to five years will be negative, and only slightly positive beyond that, producing a weighted average of zero.
The overall trade-weighted value of the renminbi has thus declined significantly, particularly relative to the currencies of the emerging-market countries with which Chinese producers compete.
Relative to the US dollar, an equal-weighted basket of 10 major Asian currencies (excluding Japan) has retraced the crisis-related distortions of 2008-2009 and has now returned to pre-crisis highs.
And, while the Chinese yuan has remained more or less unchanged relative to the US dollar in the past year, the dollar's sharp appreciation relative to the euro and other currencies caused the overall trade-weighted value of the yuan to rise.
An alternative approach is to use a GDP-weighted benchmark.
Here, greater scope for weighted and double-majority voting is crucial.

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