heavy with
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: carrying or having a large amount of (something)
The trees are heavy with fruit.
Her comments were heavy with irony.
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The parade kicked off in the evening, with a contingent heavy with MAGA hats and shirts lined up at the National Mall and along Constitution Avenue to watch paratoopers jumping out of an airplane and World War II fighters escorting a bomber past the Washington Monument.
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Time, 15 June 2025
The sun had started to sink in the sky, which was heavy with light.
—Karl Ove Knausgaard, Harpers Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025
At dusk, the sky was heavy with wildfire smoke that had blown down from New Jersey.
—Antonia Hitchens, New Yorker, 15 June 2025
The starting pitching is not just top heavy with an ace doing the heavy lifting.
—Larry Fleisher, Forbes.com, 29 May 2025
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Time, 15 June 2025
The sun had started to sink in the sky, which was heavy with light.
—Karl Ove Knausgaard, Harpers Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025
At dusk, the sky was heavy with wildfire smoke that had blown down from New Jersey.
—Antonia Hitchens, New Yorker, 15 June 2025
The starting pitching is not just top heavy with an ace doing the heavy lifting.
—Larry Fleisher, Forbes.com, 29 May 2025
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“Heavy with.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/heavy%20with. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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