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overweighed

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past tense of overweigh

as in outweighed

to be greater in importance than proper food and sleep should overweigh all-night partying in your priorities

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Most of us, for instance, are not the oil company executives who were told about the effects of CO2 emissions back in the 1970s and decided that the threat to their business outweighed the threat to the planet.

— Gabriel Winslow-Yost, The New York Review of Books, 4 July 2026
However, the positives have increasingly outweighed the negatives throughout 2026, to the point where, at the time of writing, the game has a 74% positive score for reviews written in the past 30 days (of which there have been 951).

— Barry Collins, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026

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