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Noun
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David Allison, the dean of the public-health school at Indiana University-Bloomington and an obesity researcher who, along with Peter Attia, has advised Rahal, frames it differently.—
Hannah Goldfield,
New Yorker,
21 Apr. 2025 -
With increasing demand for obesity treatments, Eli Lilly is positioning itself as a leader alongside Novo Nordisk.—
Trefis Team,
Forbes.com,
17 Apr. 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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For The Union-Tribune Baby fat By the year 2050, it’s projected that 1 in 6 young people will have obesity.—
Scott Lafee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 Apr. 2025
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Adding the extra fat from butter and warming it up may also help stimulate digestion.—
Kathleen Ferraro,
Verywell Health,
21 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Morgan Stanley reiterates Meta as overweight The firm said Meta is best positioned amid the tariff uncertainty.—
Michael Bloom,
CNBC,
17 Apr. 2025
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The 16-year (64-quarter) US bull market has made the US overweight in every investor’s portfolio, in my opinion.—
Brendan Ahern,
Forbes.com,
14 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The small microneedles send thermal energy to the dermis (the inner layer of the skin), stimulating collagen and elastin production, which helps improve the plumpness of your skin.—
Nadja Sayej,
Forbes,
18 Mar. 2025
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Best of all, the radiant finish blurs the appearance of pores, while coffee seed oil stimulates collagen for plumpness.—
Conçetta Ciarlo,
Vogue,
31 Jan. 2025
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The inimitable Erica Messer — aka the lady with the cast iron stomach — serves as showrunner.—
Lynette Rice,
Deadline,
24 Apr. 2025
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One of his bullets sailed half a block down Fox St., hitting the young 6th grader in the stomach, mortally wounding her.—
Nicholas Williams,
New York Daily News,
24 Apr. 2025
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“Paunchiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/paunchiness. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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