anorexic

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Recent Examples of anorexic Her oldest daughter, Sadie, 26, speaks up when her mom’s anorexic behaviors flare. Deanna Weniger, Twin Cities, 28 Dec. 2019 His team has previously found cancer patients with an anorexic and muscle-wasting syndrome called cachexia also have high blood levels of GDF15. Roni Dengler, Science | AAAS, 21 Mar. 2018 His treatment for anorexic girls involved sitting the whole family down for lunch and urging the parents to use all means to get their daughters to eat. Faye Fiore, Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2017 Yet the building itself is almost anorexic in its proportions, with 13 floors soaring over a lot barely 30 feet wide. Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2017 See all Example Sentences for anorexic 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for anorexic
Adjective
  • Liberated by the Red Army On Jan. 27, 1945, Soviet troops arrived at the gates of Auschwitz and found some 7,000 weak and emaciated prisoners.
    Vanessa Gera, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2025
  • Other animals had to be euthanized Photos shared by the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office show the horses, one of which is extremely emaciated.
    Taylor Ardrey, USA TODAY, 23 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Her face is agonized and gaunt but her expression betrays some optimism.
    Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 19 Dec. 2024
  • The face that looked back at her in the rearview mirror was gaunt, her skin pale around glassy hazel eyes.
    Glenn E. Rice, Kansas City Star, 7 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Trove of artifacts Between the two mounds, archaeologists uncovered about 1,000 artifacts — including the skeletal remains of several dozen people.
    Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2025
  • What To Know On Thursday, the Chihuahua Attorney General's Office said clandestine graves with bodies and skeletal remains had been found over the previous week near the town of Casas Grandes, in the northern Mexican state.
    Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 25 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The face that confronted him was haggard and gaunt, its hair and beard unkempt.
    Greg Jackson, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
  • These are films about a haggard failson trying to hold his life together with the help of a wise-cracking goo monster who longs for the taste of human brains.
    Charles Pulliam-Moore, The Verge, 24 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • His lanky figure curved on the piano bench and his long curls dangled over the keys.
    Sheila Regan, Twin Cities, 27 Jan. 2025
  • The lanky righty has steadily gained fastball velocity since the Red Sox drafted him at age 17 in 2021.
    John Yoo and John Shu, Newsweek, 24 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • From the high point of the Walker Basin Trail, echoes of the area’s ranching history linger in bits of barbed wire, stock tanks and weedy livestock tracks.
    Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 3 Jan. 2025
  • Some lawns have large weedy areas; remove and add new sod or plugs. 9.
    Tom MacCubbin, Orlando Sentinel, 30 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • Plus, the kid isn’t dead either, as his flailing pale self that looks on the verge of the cadaverous pops out of the trunk Jack shoves him in.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 1 Sep. 2024
  • Moreover, keeping the cadaverous Biden in the White House is a daily reminder to the American people of the feebleness and anemia of the Democratic Party, which taints Harris by association.
    Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 23 July 2024
Adjective
  • Plants receiving adequate light will produce dense, attractive new growth but the previous growth will always look spindly.
    Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Feb. 2025
  • That’s why arguably one of the most affecting scenes in the film comes when one of those singular shoots meant to make a spectacle of one of Jenna’s outfits (a dark bodysuit with long spindly fingers and a matching insectile headpiece) all but breaks apart.
    Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 18 Dec. 2024

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