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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Sleep deprivation is linked to heart disease, cognitive decline, obesity and numerous other problems.—
Lauran Neergaard,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Mar. 2025 -
But a survey last year by the benefits consultant Mercer said fewer half of large employers covered GLP-1 drugs for obesity.—
Ken Alltucker,
USA TODAY,
2 Mar. 2025
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More importantly, who would understand the crushing weight of this moment?—
Amanda Nguyen,
TIME,
3 Mar. 2025
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Those contests carry more weight in most bracket pools.—
Jay Ginsbach,
Forbes,
3 Mar. 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 13 Mar. 2025.
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