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Recent Examples of outweigh
Fundamental rights are rights the state is not supposed to deprive you of except under circumstances where the public good overwhelmingly outweighs the private harm.
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Louis Menand, New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2025
While Arsenal has targeted the Premier League for the last three seasons, Champions League glory would outweigh any other achievement in the club’s history.
—Graham Ruthven, Forbes.com, 29 Mar. 2025
The cost of not ending the war must outweigh his personal benefit in continuing it.
—Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Mar. 2025
For many White Sox fans who braved crisp temperatures and light drizzle, the tradition of Opening Day outweighed all the reasons this franchise has given its fans not to show up: A 121-loss season in 2024.
—Sam Blum, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
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Louis Menand, New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2025
While Arsenal has targeted the Premier League for the last three seasons, Champions League glory would outweigh any other achievement in the club’s history.
—Graham Ruthven, Forbes.com, 29 Mar. 2025
The cost of not ending the war must outweigh his personal benefit in continuing it.
—Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Mar. 2025
For many White Sox fans who braved crisp temperatures and light drizzle, the tradition of Opening Day outweighed all the reasons this franchise has given its fans not to show up: A 121-loss season in 2024.
—Sam Blum, New York Times, 28 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 16 Apr. 2025.
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