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Recent Examples of anorexic
Her oldest daughter, Sadie, 26, speaks up when her mom’s anorexic behaviors flare.
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Deanna Weniger, Twin Cities, 28 Dec. 2019
His team has previously found cancer patients with an anorexic and muscle-wasting syndrome called cachexia also have high blood levels of GDF15.
—Roni Dengler, Science | AAAS, 21 Mar. 2018
His treatment for anorexic girls involved sitting the whole family down for lunch and urging the parents to use all means to get their daughters to eat.
—Faye Fiore, Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2017
Yet the building itself is almost anorexic in its proportions, with 13 floors soaring over a lot barely 30 feet wide.
—Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2017
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Deanna Weniger, Twin Cities, 28 Dec. 2019
His team has previously found cancer patients with an anorexic and muscle-wasting syndrome called cachexia also have high blood levels of GDF15.
—Roni Dengler, Science | AAAS, 21 Mar. 2018
His treatment for anorexic girls involved sitting the whole family down for lunch and urging the parents to use all means to get their daughters to eat.
—Faye Fiore, Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2017
Yet the building itself is almost anorexic in its proportions, with 13 floors soaring over a lot barely 30 feet wide.
—Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2017
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for anorexic
Adjective
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Those that did not starve to death weren’t much better off: emaciated, sick and unable to produce healthy young.—
Kevin Spear,
Orlando Sentinel,
19 Jan. 2025
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Survivors emerged emaciated and barely able to walk, according to reports, and at least 13 children were among those rescued.—
Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell,
Newsweek,
16 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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The face that looked back at her in the rearview mirror was gaunt, her skin pale around glassy hazel eyes.—
Glenn E. Rice,
Kansas City Star,
7 Jan. 2025
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Gone is the gaunt, skeletal vampire of the 1922 film, replaced by a larger, more intimidating, master of the undead with a mustache and deep voice.—
Scott Phillips,
Forbes,
23 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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Her attacks often left behind nothing but chilling remnants—torn garments, skeletal remains and the haunting echoes of her roars.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes,
16 Jan. 2025
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The discovery of human remains in Taylorsville, North Carolina, is one of several recent incidents across the U.S. where skeletal remains have been found in remote or unexpected locations.—
Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell,
Newsweek,
15 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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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
Adjective
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In the video, a lanky kid is smoothly fielding balls on a dirt infield, then throwing hard strikes from the mound, and then lacing line drives from the left-handed batter’s box.—
Dan Freedman,
Forbes,
17 Jan. 2025
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Their common name is derived from their prehensile tails, some as long as three feet, which the animals use along with their disproportionately lanky limbs to grasp branches and other objects.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
2 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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From the high point of the Walker Basin Trail, echoes of the area’s ranching history linger in bits of barbed wire, stock tanks and weedy livestock tracks.—
Mare Czinar,
The Arizona Republic,
3 Jan. 2025
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Some lawns have large weedy areas; remove and add new sod or plugs. 9.—
Tom MacCubbin,
Orlando Sentinel,
30 Nov. 2024
Adjective
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Plus, the kid isn’t dead either, as his flailing pale self that looks on the verge of the cadaverous pops out of the trunk Jack shoves him in.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
1 Sep. 2024
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Moreover, keeping the cadaverous Biden in the White House is a daily reminder to the American people of the feebleness and anemia of the Democratic Party, which taints Harris by association.—
Armstrong Williams,
Baltimore Sun,
23 July 2024
Adjective
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That evening, Flora and Dani were in the activities room, sitting on spindly chairs, explaining to Gala, Pip, and a handful of others what had happened earlier in the day.—
Sheila Heti,
The New Yorker,
19 Jan. 2025
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But a few Decembers ago, its branches turned into spindly things where spikes grew instead of leaves.—
Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Dec. 2024
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