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Recent Examples of pudgy Short limbs and pudgy body shape make giant pandas susceptible to falls. Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 6 Nov. 2024 But the pudgy screwball specialist with the funky delivery emerged as the team’s ace in 1981, going 13-7 with a 2.48 ERA in 25 starts and winning the NL Cy Young and Rookie of the Year awards, a performance that earned him a long leash in the postseason. Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2024 Fat Bear Week is a perennial attention-grabber for its pudgy Alaskan brown bears, but the frenzy is focused on a short time period. Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024 In the dining room, artisanal, woven-straw dining chairs surround the handmade table, watched over by two monumental Fernando Botero paintings—a juicy still life of a sliced watermelon, which hung in his own Colombian home for many years; and a portrait of a pudgy girl. Hannah Martin, Architectural Digest, 17 July 2024 See All Example Sentences for pudgy
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Adjective
  • Ironically, her swollen face looks plump and round despite her partial buccal fat removal — a procedure that extracts the soft pads of tissue found inside the cheeks to create a slimmer face.
    Leah Dolan, CNN, 22 Mar. 2025
  • It’s packed with moisture-boosting ingredients that leave your skin feeling plump, dewy and ready to glow.
    Maria Correa, Miami Herald, 3 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Suet Suet is defined as rendered beef fat, and suet cakes are a mixture of suet, seeds, fruit, and other bird-friendly mix-in.
    Abby Fribush, Southern Living, 27 Mar. 2025
  • The Ak-mak cracker’s selling point was its simplicity — whole wheat, low fat, made with honey rather than refined sugar.
    Bay Area News Group, Mercury News, 25 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Birmingham 3 Regional, second round Venue: Schollmaier Arena — Fort Worth, Texas Time: 6 p.m.
    Steven Louis Goldstein, The Athletic, 23 Mar. 2025
  • New Mexico Florida has overtaken Duke as No. 1 in offensive efficiency following both teams opening round games on Thursday.
    Jay Ginsbach, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Its doe-foot applicator has a chubby, rounded tip that comes out of the tube with a lovely squish.
    Jennifer Hussein, Allure, 14 Mar. 2025
  • All sketches wish to be real. —Tomas Tranströmer, The Blue House The fertility clinic’s waiting room featured photos of chubby, healthy, smiling babies.
    Hazlitt, Hazlitt, 5 Mar. 2025

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“Pudgy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pudgy. Accessed 5 Apr. 2025.

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