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Recent Examples of deadweight
But Iggy Azalea is deadweight on the song, with her blaccent and school-assignment-level rhymes.
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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
The benefit is the removal of intermediaries and all the inefficiency and deadweight losses therein.
—Korok Ray, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
With 12 tackles, 1.5 tackles for a loss, a sack and two quarterback hurries, Asante played hero ball Saturday night as Auburn leaned on its defense with deadweight as the Tigers’ offense sputtered.
—Ainslie Lee | Alee@al.com, al, 12 Sep. 2023
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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
The benefit is the removal of intermediaries and all the inefficiency and deadweight losses therein.
—Korok Ray, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
With 12 tackles, 1.5 tackles for a loss, a sack and two quarterback hurries, Asante played hero ball Saturday night as Auburn leaned on its defense with deadweight as the Tigers’ offense sputtered.
—Ainslie Lee | Alee@al.com, al, 12 Sep. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for deadweight
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This means minimizing greenhouse gas emissions, reducing the burden of hazardous substances that can negatively impact communities and the environment, and operating at lower temperatures than other chemical recycling processes.—
TRACY YOCHUM,
Sacramento Bee,
29 Jan. 2025
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His new teammate, Kimi Antonelli, age 18, has the burden of being a teenage rookie sensation in the spotlight.—
Brad Spurgeon,
Robb Report,
28 Jan. 2025
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The Suez Canal, for example, is crucial for energy and cargo shipments moving between Asia and Europe.—
Steve Banker,
Forbes,
23 Jan. 2025
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They are then exported out of Haiti to Miami, where the cargo is again quickly loaded onto aircraft bound for China, where they are then raised for food.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
23 Jan. 2025
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The Panama Canal has a long history of sea creatures voyaging through as stowaways on ships’ hulls and in their ballast tanks: oysters from the Indo-Pacific, jellyfish from the Black Sea, worms from mud flats in the Netherlands.—
Charlie Cordero,
New York Times,
7 Jan. 2025
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The vessel's captain said on Sunday there was a leak in the fourth cargo tank and oil was leaking into the ballast tank although no fuel spilt into the water and none of the 14 crew members was in danger, according to the Baza Telegram channel.—
Tim Ryan,
Newsweek,
18 Dec. 2024
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More than 60% of respondents said Lunar New Year freight, which consists of spring and summer products, were also frontloaded to avoid any supply chain disruption.—
Lori Ann LaRocco,
CNBC,
17 Jan. 2025
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Per Brookings analysis, this legislation has funneled an incredible $1.71 billion to the San Diego region over the past two years, like the $54 million replacement of the San Dieguito River Railway Bridge in Del Mar to ensure passenger and freight rail connections to Los Angeles and beyond.—
Adie Tomer,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 Jan. 2025
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Kickoff won’t arrive for nearly two weeks in New Orleans, but there are already a boat load of prop bets available.—
Kellis Robinett,
Kansas City Star,
29 Jan. 2025
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Zimbabwe is one of the few African countries to achieve a milestone in HIV/AIDS diagnosis, treatment and suppression of viral load.—
Ellen Knickmeyer, Samya Kullab, Farai Mutsaka and Charlotte Graham-McLay,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Jan. 2025
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Hornets’ security, the Observer previously reported, typically places barricades outside the stadium’s loading dock area to keep pedestrians and fans at bay — particularly when a car is leaving.—
Julia Coin,
Charlotte Observer,
23 Jan. 2025
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The circular loading indicator kept spinning, which felt a little overwhelming.—
Robert Anderson,
PCMAG,
22 Jan. 2025
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The ultimate payload is account takeover through credential theft.—
Davey Winder,
Forbes,
17 Jan. 2025
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The license is for the launch of the company's RFA One rocket, which has an advertised payload of 1.3 metric tons to low-Earth orbit.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
17 Jan. 2025
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Monday’s total audience haul was nearly 10 million viewers less than watched former President Biden’s inauguration in January 2021, which came just days after the attack on the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters during the certification of that year’s election results.—
Dominick Mastrangelo,
The Hill,
22 Jan. 2025
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By the end of the season, Bournemouth had 12 more league wins and had climbed to 12th, with a record points haul.—
Matt Slater,
The Athletic,
19 Jan. 2025
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“Deadweight.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deadweight. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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