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Recent Examples of bloat
Too much protein powder can cause an upset stomach
My biggest issue with protein powder was bloating and a regular upset stomach.
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Misaki Kawatsu, Vogue, 10 June 2025
Senate and Assembly Democrats followed his lead, bloating the budget even further.
—Diane Dixon, Oc Register, 18 June 2025
Signs and symptoms to look for would be severe abdominal pain, inability to pass gas or have a bowel movement, vomiting and bloating.
—Omer Awan, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025
How Long to Wait to Run After Eating Waiting for a period between eating and running allows your body enough time to digest the food, reducing your risk of stomach cramps, nausea, gas, or bloating while running.
—Aviv Joshua, Verywell Health, 13 June 2025
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Misaki Kawatsu, Vogue, 10 June 2025
Senate and Assembly Democrats followed his lead, bloating the budget even further.
—Diane Dixon, Oc Register, 18 June 2025
Signs and symptoms to look for would be severe abdominal pain, inability to pass gas or have a bowel movement, vomiting and bloating.
—Omer Awan, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025
How Long to Wait to Run After Eating Waiting for a period between eating and running allows your body enough time to digest the food, reducing your risk of stomach cramps, nausea, gas, or bloating while running.
—Aviv Joshua, Verywell Health, 13 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bloat
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Many stevia products sold in stores contain additional ingredients, including bulking agents and other sweeteners.—
Melissa Nieves,
Verywell Health,
2 June 2025
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Questions remain about Pearce’s upper-body strength and, given his natural build, the team that drafts him will have to find the sweet spot for bulking him up without reducing his explosiveness.—
Sean Hammond,
Chicago Tribune,
24 Apr. 2025
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And while May is also a busy month for ESPN and TNT, which in late spring are glutted with live NBA and NHL playoff games, cable as a whole accounted for less than a quarter (24.1%) of all consumption last month.—
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
20 June 2025
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The risotto was impeccably cooked, each grain a plump oval glutted with crab stock and a compound butter infused with ginger, shallot Thai chile and tomato.—
Jenn Harris,
Los Angeles Times,
18 June 2025
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The flood waters tore through McDowell County in West Virginia so fast in February that Rev. Brad Davis barely had time to grab his two cats before his house was swamped.—
Scott MacFarlane,
CBS News,
24 June 2025
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Each attempt to get above was smacked down as the sellers swamped the buyers.—
Josh Brown,Sean Russo,
CNBC,
23 June 2025
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But two of the endeavor’s most compelling aspects are difficult to convey in any individual image, no matter how spectacular: the sheer amount of data Rubin will produce and the speed with which those data will flood into astronomers’ work.—
Meghan Bartels,
Scientific American,
1 July 2025
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Streets became rivers that coursed down Asheville’s sloped streets, taking down trees and flooding everything in their path.—
Sofia Perez,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
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“Bloat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bloat. Accessed 9 Jul. 2025.
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