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"give weight" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is often used in a figurative sense to mean to give importance, significance, or credibility to something. Example: The expert's testimony gave weight to the prosecution's case and ultimately helped secure a guilty verdict.
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give weight
verb
To attach importance to
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Salome's story will give weight to the Ugandan government's decision last year to ban TBAs.
What really matters is Dench's supreme ability to give weight to every word she utters.
Case studies we did for our report give weight to these findings.
The first principles of science give weight to methods like observation and experiment.
They give weight to the idea the economy can bumble along at 5-6%.
They give weight to research, and IIMA has so far only cared about teaching.
Moreover, he has been raised 11lb by the handicapper, and must duly give weight all round.
History and the burden of race didn't give weight to its pages, as they do in much black fiction.
Ann Armstrong recounted events on January 3 2002, that appeared to give weight to the government's obstruction of justice charges.
But subsequent and future projects give weight to Mr. Gaines's notion that another threshold has been reached.
You could also give weight to a study that found that young women at work are "consistently underestimated and overlooked".
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