carry weight
Frequency: 7.29.7 per million words
to be influential or important
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Examples (10)
- His words always carry significant weight in the board meetings.
- Does your recommendation carry enough weight to influence the decision?
- The new scientific evidence began to carry considerable weight among researchers.
- In this organization, experience tends to carry more weight than academic qualifications.
- Despite his junior position, his innovative ideas often carry unexpected weight.
- A strong reputation can carry a lot of weight when seeking new clients.
- The judge's ruling will certainly carry legal weight for all future cases.
- Her long-standing service to the community made her opinions carry moral weight.
- He hoped his argument would carry sufficient weight to persuade the committee.
- Unfortunately, the public's concerns didn't carry much weight with the local council.