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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When Wilson was regressing into drugs and obesity, Landy was rehired six years later, the outlet shared.—
Stephanie Nolasco,
FOXNews.com,
17 Aug. 2025 -
Longer survival might be due to having extra energy reserves, differences in tumor biology or treatment tolerance, or measurement issues, such as BMI vs body composition, so it shouldn't be interpreted as evidence of obesity being beneficial.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
15 Aug. 2025
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The weight of evidence indicates that Emery’s side, in defiance of their ongoing challenges, will not collapse completely because of an inherent robustness.—
Jacob Tanswell,
New York Times,
18 Aug. 2025
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The Biggest Loser premiered in 2004 on NBC, focusing on overweight and obese individuals trying to lose weight.—
Lea Veloso,
StyleCaster,
18 Aug. 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 27 Aug. 2025.
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