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as in buxom
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Recent Examples of zaftig
Need a zaftig character actor with a sweet smile and a can-do attitude?
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Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 14 Sep. 2024
Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 14 Sep. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for zaftig
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In a humiliating audition for another lascivious Las Vegas revue, the 57-year-old character, a buxom blond dreamer, stands onstage before a sleazy producer (Jason Schwartzman) who cuts her performance short.Robyn Bahr, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Dec. 2024
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Still, Christmas Vacation is worth watching alone for Randy Quaid's Cousin Eddie and Chevy Chase's fumbling encounter with a buxom department store salesperson.Chris Nashawaty, EW.com, 11 Dec. 2024
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This place gives what is uniquely a sweet and voluptuous touch to the tannins, combined with very intense spiciness on the finish.John Mariani, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
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Hugo wrote in voluptuous, righteous prose about Notre-Dame’s dereliction.Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2024
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The 11 Best Headboards of 2024 for Every Bedroom Style In the primary bath, matching the Roman shade fabric to the wallpaper creates a continuous flow that emphasizes the voluminous feeling; the octagonal side table provides shapely interest.Kathryn O'Shea-Evans, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Aug. 2024
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Look to design super star, Ilse Crawford, for this shapely oak option.Erika Owen, Architectural Digest, 2 July 2024
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The home is situated in a U-shape around a curvaceous pool lined with Bisazza tile.Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 23 Dec. 2024
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Jonathan Anderson introduced his brand new Loafer bag–named for its likeness to the smart penny shoe – while curvaceous versions also arrived at Stella McCartney and Miu Miu (the latter’s came with horsebit hardware).Alice Cary, Vogue, 20 Dec. 2024
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All the children, made chubby by their coats and jackets, their hats and scarves, the pitch of their glee rising and falling like a siren.Brandon Taylor, The Atlantic, 4 Jan. 2025
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While chubby cats may look cute, obesity can shorten their life and expose them to elevated risks of cancer, diabetes mellitus, heart disease and hypertension, osteoarthritis and faster degeneration of affected joints, urinary bladder stones, and anesthetic complications.Maria Azzurra Volpe, Newsweek, 18 Dec. 2024
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The corpulent clouds in Delaunay’s Tour Rouge (1911–12), for instance, bear no closer equivalents than those painted by Fernand Léger during the same years, visible across the Guggenheim’s atrium in a rendering of Parisian rooftops.Ara H. Merjian, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2019
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All of them follow this corpulent detective, Nero, who lives in a town house with his butler, Fritz.The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2024
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Forget about his origins as a pudgy second-round pick whose selection was made during a Taco Bell commercial.John Hollinger, The Athletic, 21 Nov. 2024
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As a pudgy teen in the small town of Sombor in northern Serbia, Jokić was just as interested in horse racing as basketball and was pushing 300 pounds while chugging three liters of soda a day.John Hollinger, The Athletic, 21 Nov. 2024
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Never a perfect circle, but dependably rotund, the doughnuts are large enough to tear at greedily and still last the entire drive home.Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2025
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The toy, named Psyduck—intended for humans—is a rotund duck-like creature prone to splitting headaches.Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 9 Feb. 2023
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“Zaftig.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/zaftig. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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