as in obesity
the condition of having an excess of body fat
her corpulency is such that she requires two seats on public conveyances
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Noun
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Enjoy, and see you soon… A flood of cheap copies of Novo Nordisk’s blockbuster weight-loss drug in India is already reshaping the country’s fast-growing obesity medicine market, showing how quickly the patent cliff will affect GLP-1 makers like Eli Lilly, Bloomberg News explains.—
Ed Silverman,
STAT,
10 Apr. 2026 -
The study is interesting as a computer science paper, but the methods and findings don’t stand up to medical scientific scrutiny, says Yuval Pinto, MD, an obesity and family medicine doctor at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore.—
Emily Kay Votruba,
EverydayHealth.com,
10 Apr. 2026
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For many young Indian women, the change also carries symbolic weight.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
16 Apr. 2026
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Russ shifted his weight and rested his arm on the back of Cherry’s chair.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 Apr. 2026
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“Corpulency.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/corpulency. Accessed 18 Apr. 2026.
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