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Noun
  • The obesity epidemic is causing a huge amount of health issues in this country.
    Angelica Stabile, Fox News, 27 Jan. 2025
  • People who don’t get enough sleep are at higher risk for obesity, high blood pressure, heart attack, diabetes and depression, O’Keefe said.
    Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 26 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Colorectal Cancer Symptoms The common symptoms are changes in bowel habits such as diarrhea or constipation, bright red rectal bleeding, dark blood in stool, cramps, fatigue, and unexplained weight loss.
    Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 25 Jan. 2025
  • Gypsy-Rose Blanchard is denying rumors about her recent weight loss after giving birth to her baby girl.
    Charna Flam, People.com, 25 Jan. 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
  • However, given the high calories and fat in cheese, experts recommend consuming the dairy product in moderation.
    Sarah Garone, Health, 15 Jan. 2025
  • His plastic surgery board certification had been on probation after Walker’s death from a pulmonary embolism that the Department of Health charged was caused by Simmons illegally injecting fat into Walker’s gluteal muscles.
    David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 15 Jan. 2025
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“Embonpoint.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/embonpoint. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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