as in skinny
having a noticeably small amount of body fat
a lineup of competitive body builders with fatless bodies
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fatless
Adjective
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The woman walked past, shuffling her skinny legs with determination.—
Samanta Schweblin,
The New Yorker,
26 Jan. 2025 -
Something is wrong when a police officer who threatened to kill my son comes to my home and, without hesitating, without negotiating with a sick, skinny 21-year-old in crisis, carries out his threat and shoots my son five times.—
Carol Marbin Miller,
Miami Herald,
26 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Mother Nature removes this thin coating of cement/lime paste over time, exposing the sand color to your eyes.—
Tim Carter,
Hartford Courant,
25 Jan. 2025
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The Verge’s Allison Johnson joins David and Nilay to talk about the vibes at Unpacked, where the thinner S25 Edge inspired raucous enthusiasm, and where Samsung tried to make the case that AI will make your phone better even if there’s not much new hardware to speak of.—
David Pierce,
The Verge,
24 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Physically strong for his tender age and slender frame, Yalcouye demonstrated a strong defensive mindset, excelling as a ball-winning midfielder.—
Andy Naylor,
The Athletic,
21 Jan. 2025
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No matter the quality of what exists of the film today, piercing through the celluloid is the indelible creepy image of Schreck and his slender 6-foot 3-inch frame as Orlok.—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes,
24 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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Lift your hips off the ground and place a block underneath your sacrum, the widest, boniest part of your pelvis.—
Cory Martin,
Verywell Health,
16 Oct. 2024
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Differences in Adult Bones That being said, some adults are bonier than others.—
Sam Walters,
Discover Magazine,
3 Nov. 2023
Adjective
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Prioritize vegetables, lean proteins and meats, and whole foods that are low in fat and processed ingredients.—
Alyssa Hui-Anderson,
Verywell Health,
20 Jan. 2025
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Most organizations fighting the left lean toward despair, while most future-building is done by the left.—
Josh Rottenberg,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Chances that everyone who plans to buy a property this year will manage to do so are slim, based on precedent: only 28 percent of Americans who began 2024 intending to buy a home did so, NerdWallet found.—
Jonathan Granoff,
Newsweek,
29 Jan. 2025
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Christopher Null The Best MagSafe Wallets These convenient and slim magnetic wallets stick to the back of your smartphone.—
Parker Hall,
WIRED,
29 Jan. 2025
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“Fatless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fatless. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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