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Recent Examples of deadweight
Getting rid of deadweight and dealing with unsatisfactory situations will lighten your burden and make room for investing more time in yourself and what brings you joy.
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Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2024
Taken together, if VIPER fails to fly, the agency will have spent about $800 million to send literal deadweight to the moon instead.
—Michael Greshko, Scientific American, 24 July 2024
But Iggy Azalea is deadweight on the song, with her blaccent and school-assignment-level rhymes.
—Justin Curto, Vulture, 8 Mar. 2024
What’s your prognosis for the season? 2023 was an anomaly of deadweight contracts and injuries crashing into a youth movement.
—Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 27 Mar. 2024
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Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2024
Taken together, if VIPER fails to fly, the agency will have spent about $800 million to send literal deadweight to the moon instead.
—Michael Greshko, Scientific American, 24 July 2024
But Iggy Azalea is deadweight on the song, with her blaccent and school-assignment-level rhymes.
—Justin Curto, Vulture, 8 Mar. 2024
What’s your prognosis for the season? 2023 was an anomaly of deadweight contracts and injuries crashing into a youth movement.
—Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 27 Mar. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for deadweight
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During a Wednesday budget meeting, council members discussed ensuring that the additional funds would go directly to transit services and minimize the financial burden on residents.—
Jason Clayworth,
Axios,
21 Feb. 2025
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The legislation, House Bill 177, seeks to reduce the financial burden on the state's Medicaid program by ensuring that parents who have access to private insurance use it as the primary coverage for their children.—
Tom Rogers,
Newsweek,
21 Feb. 2025
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Dex gives him mouth-to-mouth to revive him and then … leaves him on the cargo ship.—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
14 Feb. 2025
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When the Western military left, islanders created makeshift imitations of the infrastructure — control towers built from bamboo, a plane carved from wood — in the hope that this ritual would cause more cargo to arrive.—
Laura Regensdorf Katharine Sohn Laura Bannister Osman Can Yerebakan Shannon Adducci,
New York Times,
13 Feb. 2025
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The boat, with 4,050 pounds of ballast, is designed for wakeboarding and wakesurfing.—
Michael Verdon,
Robb Report,
14 Feb. 2025
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Cabinet department independence is one source of ballast there, as is congressional oversight.—
Nathaniel Rakich,
ABC News,
4 Feb. 2025
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Odyssey is a private logistics solutions provider with annual revenue of $1 billion and a freight network that exceeds $3 billion globally, according to the company.—
Catherine Muccigrosso,
Charlotte Observer,
21 Feb. 2025
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Uber's freight business, which has struggled to generate profitability, accounts for the remaining share of revenue.—
GuruFocus,
Forbes,
20 Feb. 2025
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This is because teams test with different fuel loads and tire compounds, and some might even engage in sandbagging—a tactic where drivers deliberately lap slower to keep their true pace and potential under wraps to divert attention from certain features on the car or dodge unnecessary hype.—
Yara Elshebiny,
Forbes,
22 Feb. 2025
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Craving more assists from Tyler McGhie to balance the load?—
Bryce Miller,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
19 Feb. 2025
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The first phase of the Pavilion renovation, addressing backstage infrastructure such as artist facilities and loading areas, is already underway, according to comments and photographs provided by Ravinia President and CEO Jeff Haydon.—
Hannah Edgar,
Chicago Tribune,
13 Feb. 2025
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Hicks Bus Line buses line up in the loading area at Lake Ripley Elementary School.—
Kendall Larson,
Twin Cities,
6 Feb. 2025
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Primary payload was commercial company Astrobotic’s Peregrine lander headed to the moon.—
Richard Tribou,
Orlando Sentinel,
15 Feb. 2025
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That suggests Pandora could launch on SpaceX’s Transporter series of dedicated rideshare missions that send payloads to such orbits, but neither NASA nor SpaceX disclosed specifics.—
Eric Berger,
Ars Technica,
14 Feb. 2025
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About $70 million in political ad spending was recorded during the October-to-December span, the company estimated – a modest amount compared with the haul for some industry peers, but still a sizable boost.—
Dade Hayes,
Deadline,
20 Feb. 2025
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This is both the largest sample of dwarf galaxies with active black holes ever seen and the largest haul of elusive intermediate-mass black holes ever collected.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
19 Feb. 2025
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“Deadweight.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deadweight. Accessed 1 Mar. 2025.
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