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Recent Examples of anorectic
Beyond that, signs' late and early parts are called anorectic and critical degrees.
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Lisa Stardust, People.com, 22 Oct. 2024
Lisa Stardust, People.com, 22 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for anorectic
Adjective
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At once too frigid and too promiscuous within the terms of early psychoanalysis, the anorexic woman’s appetites (or lack thereof) were a threat to the cultural order.Anna Shechtman, Harper's Magazine, 9 Feb. 2024
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From much of the plaza, yet another anorexic supertall for squillionaires, rising at 29th Street, now blots it out.Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2023
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Archaeologists identified at least five grave shafts, including skeletal remains, buttons, a coffin, and coffin hardware.Jade Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Nov. 2024
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Most of the skeletal remains come from digs carried out from the 1920s to the late 1950s at Harappa, Mohenjo-Daro, and other ancient settlements of the Indus Valley, according to ASI Director BV Sharma.ByVaishnavi Chandrashekhar, science.org, 4 Nov. 2024
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Severely malnourished children are emaciated and typically lethargic or even unconscious, have cold hands, a rapid pulse, low blood pressure, and may be close to dying.ByElizabeth Pennisi, science.org, 2 Oct. 2024
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Macy was found emaciated and struggling to survive.Stephanie McBee, ABC News, 27 Sep. 2024
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The piece, The Frugal Meal, depicts a gaunt couple at a dinner table before an empty bowl, a small loaf of bread and a bottle of wine.Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Nov. 2024
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For many of us, our first exposure to death involved an animal: the firefly in the Mason jar, the bird beneath the window, the deer beside the highway, the beloved cat gone gaunt with age, curled up stiff below the basement stairs.Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
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The face that confronted him was haggard and gaunt, its hair and beard unkempt.Greg Jackson, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
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These are films about a haggard failson trying to hold his life together with the help of a wise-cracking goo monster who longs for the taste of human brains.Charles Pulliam-Moore, The Verge, 24 Oct. 2024
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“Anorectic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/anorectic. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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