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Recent Examples of anorexic
Along with icons of anorexic saints, my childhood home was a place of books.
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Eliza Griswold,
New Yorker,
19 Apr. 2025
At once too frigid and too promiscuous within the terms of early psychoanalysis, the anorexic woman’s appetites (or lack thereof) were a threat to the cultural order.
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Anna Shechtman,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Mar. 2024
From much of the plaza, yet another anorexic supertall for squillionaires, rising at 29th Street, now blots it out.
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Michael Kimmelman,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2023
The anorexic girl is a victim of improper consumption.
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Anna Shechtman,
The New Yorker,
20 Dec. 2021
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Eliza Griswold,
New Yorker,
19 Apr. 2025
At once too frigid and too promiscuous within the terms of early psychoanalysis, the anorexic woman’s appetites (or lack thereof) were a threat to the cultural order.
—
Anna Shechtman,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Mar. 2024
From much of the plaza, yet another anorexic supertall for squillionaires, rising at 29th Street, now blots it out.
—
Michael Kimmelman,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2023
The anorexic girl is a victim of improper consumption.
—
Anna Shechtman,
The New Yorker,
20 Dec. 2021
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for anorexic
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Beyond that, signs' late and early parts are called anorectic and critical degrees.
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Among those transferred out was Flora, a 10-year-old brindle shepherd who the organization said came in emaciated and missing her left front leg.
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Police found Nola’s emaciated body wrapped in plastic inside a suitcase.
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The church’s punishment, however, delivered in front of the congregants, is an eerie ritual performed by a gaunt, severe visitor (Nicholas Hope).
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Brig is in the Upper Valais, a gaunt and conservative place where the inhabitants speak Walliser German, an Alpine dialect that many Swiss people find unintelligible.
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But over the past two decades, new research has emerged that is changing how scientists and physicians think about skeletal health.
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Because kids aren’t fully grown yet, their skeletal systems require surgeries tailored to each child’s specific growth and developmental stages, meaning a 15-year-old won’t receive the same kind of knee reconstruction surgery as a 60-year-old — or even as a 12-year-old.
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Rocking back and forth nervously during a television appearance, a haggard-looking Diaz-Canel acknowledged the same talks, which his government had denied were taking place just days before.
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Wrexham, meanwhile, was near the bottom, struggling in England’s lowest division under a haggard fan-ownership group keeping it on life support.
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Gray, a lanky man with a gray mustache, volunteers as a docent at the Museum of Flight in Seattle, just across from Boeing Field.
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Green's first two seasons in college went according to script and the lanky downfield threat was as good as advertised, earning first-team All-SEC honors in back-to-back years.
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Despite thriving in shallow, weedy, mucky areas, snakeheads do not gravitate to decaying forage.
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To help prevent borers, keep weedy areas around the garden mowed well.
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Die große Nacht im Eimer (The Big Night Down the Drain), made that year, depicts a figure of indiscernible age with a cadaverous pallor and yellow splotches, brandishing an oversized phallus beneath a soot-black veil.
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As the hulking creature, the Australian star appears to have pale, cadaverous skin with lacerations across it and long, stringy hair.
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“Anorexic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/anorexic. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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