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Recent Examples of Synonyms for embonpoint
Noun
  • The clinic urged owners to not rely on a 100% seed diet as the foods can cause obesity and vitamin deficiencies.
    Krystal Nurse, USA TODAY, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Dogs with high genetic obesity risk were sensitive to how their owners handled their diet and their daily routines.
    Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 13 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • By 2016, President Obama put his weight behind the movement with the Computer Science for All initiative.
    James V. Shuls, National Review, 20 Apr. 2025
  • But the procession carried even more weight this year.
    Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 20 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Whimsy was also the domain of the Colombian painter and sculptor Fernando Botero, whose signature was a race of voluptuously bloated figures — denizens, from priests to bullfighters, of an almost cartoonish world that, to him, had to do not with corpulence but with the sensuality of human life.
    William McDonald, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2023
  • His thick musculature having bloated into unhealthy corpulence, Maradona was hospitalized in Buenos Aires in April 2004 with what doctors described as a weakened heart and acute breathing problems.
    Jeré Longman, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2020
Noun
  • Active individuals are better able to utilize natural sugars and fats postexercise.
    Faye Remedios, Glamour, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Individuals with significant intra-abdominal fat (patients with fat inside the belly) are also not ideal candidates.
    Michelle Lee, People.com, 5 Apr. 2025
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“Embonpoint.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/embonpoint. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.

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