How to Use deadweight in a Sentence
deadweight
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But there’s no deadweight to speak of, and the first five episodes give all of the main ensemble their chance to shine.
—Zack Handlen, Variety, 2 May 2022
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About 60 percent of the deadweight tonnage moved to front lines is gasoline and oil.
—Popular Mechanics, 6 June 2019
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Set a goal, eliminate deadweight and sprint into the future.
—Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 24 June 2019
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Swiveling his propellers sideways, Johnson uses the tug as a deadweight to act as an anchor to slow the Marjorie C.
—Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2021
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Employers should dump the deadweight and set an example for employees who will readjust to be more productive members of society.
—WSJ, 4 Oct. 2022
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Her incredible ability to get played for a sucker by her own party is a deadweight on the entire national legislature.
—Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 23 Jan. 2018
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He's said California's economy is proof that combating climate change isn't the economic deadweight Trump suggests.
—Kathleen Ronayne, chicagotribune.com, 1 June 2017
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Getting Gil's literal deadweight into place must've taken some serious muscles, or at least serious physics.
—Sara Netzley, EW.com, 15 Oct. 2021
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What had seemed like a boon to our usecase ended up as a deadweight on our prospects – if investing all this money on autonomy only enabled us to clamor to fight for similar top line as incumbents, why even work on autonomy?
—Stefan Seltz-Axmacher, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
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Immigration is becoming a deadweight loss by the day for the Republican Party and conservative politics.
—Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2017
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One explanation for the deadweight loss is a mismatch between desirability and feasibility.
—Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 22 Dec. 2022
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