as in obesity
the condition of having an excess of body fat
finally a diet that really worked, allowing her to forget about her rotundity and focus on her health
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Noun
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In the longer run, such things may reduce your risk of obesity, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer and other medical conditions.—
Bruce Y. Lee,
Forbes.com,
24 July 2025 -
The problem, however, is that not all medicines are small enough to pass through the skin and into the bloodstream — a requirement for patches to work, says Melanie Jay, MD, a professor and obesity researcher at the New York University Grossman School of Medicine in New York City.—
Emily Kay Votruba,
EverydayHealth.com,
22 July 2025
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The man’s wife appears to have a different perspective on the matter, though her opinion doesn’t seem to carry much weight in the family’s final decision.—
Ashley Vega,
People.com,
25 July 2025
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In past seasons, the weight of Toronto’s run-scoring success fell squarely on Guerrero’s shoulders — a power dip like this would’ve sunk the entire team.—
Mitch Bannon,
New York Times,
25 July 2025
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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
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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
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“Rotundity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rotundity. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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