Adjective He looked to be at least 20 pounds overweight. an overweight person who had difficulty running even a short distance
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During an examination a year earlier, Trump was recorded to be six feet three inches tall and 239 pounds, which is medically considered overweight and on the verge of obesity, USA TODAY reported. Hannah Hudnall, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2022 Stuart ended up with an overweight truck the same way most other Tacoma owners do. Wes Siler, Outside Online, 25 Feb. 2021 In one study, 30 overweight or obese women consumed a breakfast of either eggs or white flour bagels with both meals containing the same amount of calories. Matthew Kadey Rd, Outside Online, 7 May 2021 Conditions that increase risk include overweight and obesity, pregnancy, smoking, diabetes, cancer, heart disease and mental health conditions, including depression. Brenda Goodman And Elizabeth Cohen, CNN, 11 Aug. 2022 Despite rising rates of overweight and obesity, the stigma of excess weight remains in virtually every aspect of society. Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 26 July 2022 Citi trimmed its target for Taiwan’s benchmark index to 14,500 from 14,900, suggesting an almost 10% downside from Thursday’s close, while CLSA lowered its view on Taiwan to neutral from overweight. Raymond Wu, Bloomberg.com, 21 May 2021 After veering into cyclicals in June, funds are reversing their direction from last month and going back towards an overweight in secular growth and an underweight in cyclical. Lucy Brewster, Fortune, 31 July 2022 As is allowing a dog to get overweight or feeding them food without any actual nutritional value. Wes Siler, Outside Online, 30 Dec. 2019
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Coincidentally, another major global investment bank upgraded China to overweight from neutral overnight. Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2021 On Friday, Wells Fargo analysts upgraded two ad agencies, Interpublic Group of Companies or IPG and the Omnicom Group, to overweight from equal weight. Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 July 2022 Drugmakers have found powerful new tools to help overweight people shed pounds by tapping into treatments for another disease: diabetes. Peter Loftus, WSJ, 21 June 2022 Investors overweight in cash to avoid market volatility have a higher likelihood of running out of money in retirement. Jonathan Dash, Forbes, 13 June 2022 One area that's particularly easy to overweight is your company's stock. The Week Staff, The Week, 1 May 2022 Some fund managers, like those in the U.K., tend to overweight their home country or region when constructing global equity funds for investors in their country. Derek Horstmeyer, WSJ, 4 Feb. 2022 Another way to benefit from the January effect during that period would have been to use leverage (or buy on margin) to overweight your portfolio to stocks the first month of the year. Derek Horstmeyer, WSJ, 8 Jan. 2022 Underweight China and overweight India is fairly typical positioning from global and EM managers at the moment. Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2021
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Older adults, people who are overweight as well as people who experience overexertion from exercise are most likely to suffer heatstroke.ABC News, 1 Sep. 2022 Haefele recommended investors remain overweight value stocks, dividend players, and healthcare and energy names.Fortune, 17 Aug. 2022 Linda Duessel, senior equity strategist at Federated Hermes, said her firm has been overweight energy stocks since the third quarter of 2020, betting that oil prices would rebound with the economy. Hardika Singh, WSJ, 22 Mar. 2022 And tens of millions of Americans are still overweight or obese in large part because of the classic Western diet and lifestyle. The Conversation, oregonlive, 22 Aug. 2022 And tens of millions of Americans are still overweight or obese in large part because of the classic Western diet and lifestyle. Richard Johnson, The Conversation, 22 Aug. 2022 Limited research published in the journal Nutrients in 2019 found that subjects who were considered overweight or clinically obese and ate watermelon instead of low-fat cookies experienced greater satiety, as an example. Erica Sweeney, Good Housekeeping, 16 June 2022 In Central Falls, 52 percent of children between ages 2 and 17 are considered overweight or obese, followed by Woonsocket at 48 percent. Dan Mcgowan, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2022 Healthcare is now overweight at 16.1% compared to the S&P 500 index at 14.4%. Lucy Brewster, Fortune, 31 July 2022 See More