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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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
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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
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“Chunkiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chunkiness. Accessed 10 Jul. 2025.
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