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Recent Examples of Synonyms for embonpoint
Noun
  • Here’s What the Research Showed The study, funded by the National Mango Board, involved 48 adult men ages 20-60 who had overweight or obesity and chronic low-grade inflammation.
    Lauren Manaker MS, Health, 28 June 2025
  • The move comes after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. rolled out plans to remove synthetic food dyes from the U.S. food supply to address health conditions such as ADHD, obesity and diabetes.
    Anuja Bharat Mistry, USA Today, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • Woods has provided input on design and features, as well as significant feedback on aspects of the polos such as weight, collar stays, buttons, water absorbency, and fit.
    Erik Matuszewski, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
  • Skubal’s broad shoulders have thus far been well-suited to handle the weight.
    Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 30 June 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • At the end, however, no water must be left and the fat must separate from the sauce.
    Tribune News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 June 2025
  • The heavy hide had about 10 pounds of fat on it, and the skull seemed to weigh another 10.
    Mike Combs, Outdoor Life, 18 June 2025
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“Embonpoint.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/embonpoint. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.

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