as in obesity
the condition of having an excess of body fat
clothes for women who may be inclined to embonpoint but who still want to look stylish
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Noun
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Sanyal noted that semaglutide had previously been shown to be beneficial for obesity, diabetes and heart disease.—
Khloe Quill,
FOXNews.com,
3 May 2025 -
Addressing the obesity crisis will require commitment, money, and patience to see results.—
Hank Cardello,
Forbes.com,
30 Apr. 2025
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Your napper should be about 10% of your body weight.—
Nora Colomer
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FOXNews.com,
2 May 2025
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Excess body weight can also put excessive strain on knee joints, leading to issues that may otherwise be avoided.—
Daryl Austin,
USA Today,
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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An observed loss of body fat and protein reserves was evidently a trade-off for resistance to mites.—
Elizabeth Rayne,
ArsTechnica,
2 May 2025
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Improve heart health Produce vitamin D Make bile acids, which play a role in the digestion and absorption of fats in the intestines.—
Emmanuella Ogbonna,
Health,
2 May 2025
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“Embonpoint.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/embonpoint. Accessed 17 May. 2025.
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