as in heaviness
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Despite the onslaught of excellent lip color options, there's nothing that really delivers the reflective sheen and instant plumpness of a classic gloss formula.—
Annie Blay-Tettey,
Allure,
13 May 2025 -
The ultra-silky strands, while luxurious, don’t provide quite the same plumpness as light yaki textures.—
Noel Cymone Walker,
StyleCaster,
2 May 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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In the longer run, such things may reduce your risk of obesity, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer and other medical conditions.—
Bruce Y. Lee,
Forbes.com,
24 July 2025
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The problem, however, is that not all medicines are small enough to pass through the skin and into the bloodstream — a requirement for patches to work, says Melanie Jay, MD, a professor and obesity researcher at the New York University Grossman School of Medicine in New York City.—
Emily Kay Votruba,
EverydayHealth.com,
22 July 2025
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“Chunkiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chunkiness. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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