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Recent Examples of outweigh
Finally, Robby looks around the emergency department, and all the patients like Sylvia who might need blood faster than the next helicopter can get it to them, and decides that the benefits outweigh the risks.
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Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2025
Politicians have also entered the fray, clashing over whether the economic benefits of the trade outweigh ethical concerns over sending the monkeys to faraway labs.
—Byrefael Kubersky, science.org, 20 Mar. 2025
But the potential to detect and address health issues early on ultimately outweighed her fears.
—Ashley Vega, People.com, 20 Mar. 2025
Our oncologist explained that IAC is still a very new technology but one with extraordinary promise whose benefits far outweighed the risks for Jack.
—Dayna Copeland, The Mercury News, 15 Mar. 2025
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Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2025
Politicians have also entered the fray, clashing over whether the economic benefits of the trade outweigh ethical concerns over sending the monkeys to faraway labs.
—Byrefael Kubersky, science.org, 20 Mar. 2025
But the potential to detect and address health issues early on ultimately outweighed her fears.
—Ashley Vega, People.com, 20 Mar. 2025
Our oncologist explained that IAC is still a very new technology but one with extraordinary promise whose benefits far outweighed the risks for Jack.
—Dayna Copeland, The Mercury News, 15 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for outweigh
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The total number of undergraduate credentials awarded in 2023-24 exceeded 3.2 million, with 59% (1.9 million) of those being BA degrees, 25% were AA degrees (821,400) and 16% were undergraduate certificates (525,200).—
Michael T. Nietzel,
Forbes.com,
10 Apr. 2025
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Though New York doesn’t have a cap, there’s typically a maximum amount the figure can exceed compensatory damages.—
Winston Cho,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Apr. 2025
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Horn: The story of MacArthur's vow to return to the Philippines has overshadowed the story of Wainwright's vow to stay with his men there.—
Dana Perino,
FOXNews.com,
9 Apr. 2025
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The opportunity to draw on the experience of 2024 will always be a positive for Schauffele; only Scheffler’s stunning year overshadowed him.—
Bob Spear,
Charlotte Observer,
8 Apr. 2025
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Don’t overweigh anecdotal evidence, Yang advises.—
Lila Thulin,
Smithsonian Magazine,
10 May 2022
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Most media polls overweigh Democrats.—
Paul Bedard,
Washington Examiner,
2 Mar. 2021
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That means nearly 40% of US households bought a car in 2024.—
Chris Isidore,
CNN Money,
3 Apr. 2025
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The decision would have meant that as of Wednesday, as many as 350,000 Venezuelans, many of them living in South Florida, would have lost the ability to legally work in the U.S, and a few days later would have been vulnerable to detention and deportation.—
Jay Weaver,
Miami Herald,
2 Apr. 2025
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What’s worse, policy is still overbalanced toward power.—
David Roberts,
Vox,
18 June 2019
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Valcuha and the orchestra brought vibrancy and color to the huge first movement, which can threaten to overbalance the rest of the score if it’s not kept at least somewhat in check.—
Joshua Kosman,
San Francisco Chronicle,
4 May 2018
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“Outweigh.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outweigh. Accessed 13 Apr. 2025.
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