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Picking a major has long been a weighty decision for college students, but the financial stakes appear to be getting higher in the AI era, according to economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026

Chinese President Xi Jinping is visiting President Trump in Washington this week for a summit that will cover weighty topics including trade, artificial-intelligence safety and relations with Taiwan.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

The documentary powerfully captures the apocalyptic landscape of Gaza City, its streets reduced to rubble and mangled rebar, and the weighty sense of responsibility shouldered by the few remaining journalists on the ground.

From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026

India's top judges often make news for their rulings or pronunciations on weighty matters of law.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

There was a sound of undergrowth being disturbed—a click of breaking branches, a weighty pushing through low foliage—and then a kind of large, vaguely irritable snuffling noise.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

A couple of the disputes are a bit weightier than a question of whether someone’s yard goes to here . . . or to here.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026

But it’s Gaffin’s candid memories of the family and romantic struggles that dovetailed with her career that lend the tome a weightier, more personal touch.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2025

The couple are set to return to the presidential residence, but this time Mutharika's in-tray will be far weightier.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2025

“Please Don’t Cry” has a weightier R&B influence than past projects.

From Seattle Times ● May 24, 2024

But I urge you all and all of the people of Texas and America, don’t leave the weightier matters undone.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger

The city's historically lucrative wholesale and retail trade remains one of its weightiest sectors, accounting for almost 25 percent of GDP in the first nine months of 2024.

From Barron's ● Mar. 1, 2026

For nearly 500 years the Court of Session has considered the thorniest and weightiest matters of the moment.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2023

Opinionpalooza, aka June, aka the end of the Supreme Court term, when the year’s weightiest opinions tend to come out.

From Slate ● Jun. 1, 2023

Admittedly, the lawsuit — essentially, a dispute among insurers over the bill for all that cracked fiberglass and teak — won’t be the weightiest matter heard in federal court in Seattle.

From Seattle Times ● May 28, 2023

The weightiest of all was marriage, and that, in my quality of heiress, I found perplexing to a degree.

From A Transient Guest and Other Episodes by Edgar Saltus