as in fatness
the condition of having an excess of body fat
obesity has been linked to a number of health risks, such as heart disease
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Recent Examples of obesity
Similar models are now being trained to predict vulnerability to complex diseases—obesity, heart disease, and, increasingly, cancer.
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Siddhartha Mukherjee, New Yorker, 16 June 2025
Kennedy says these changes are part of a larger effort to mitigate chronic diseases such as obesity, diabetes and heart disease.
—Katia Riddle, NPR, 16 June 2025
Certain medical conditions, like obesity, pregnancy, diabetes, and Crohn's disease, can increase your risk of anal skin tags.
—Sarah Bradley, Health, 15 June 2025
This includes lifestyle factors such as a lack of exercise, obesity, alcohol use, and other elements of the diet.
—Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 June 2025
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Siddhartha Mukherjee, New Yorker, 16 June 2025
Kennedy says these changes are part of a larger effort to mitigate chronic diseases such as obesity, diabetes and heart disease.
—Katia Riddle, NPR, 16 June 2025
Certain medical conditions, like obesity, pregnancy, diabetes, and Crohn's disease, can increase your risk of anal skin tags.
—Sarah Bradley, Health, 15 June 2025
This includes lifestyle factors such as a lack of exercise, obesity, alcohol use, and other elements of the diet.
—Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for obesity
Noun
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The heavy hide had about 10 pounds of fat on it, and the skull seemed to weigh another 10.—
Mike Combs,
Outdoor Life,
18 June 2025
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At the end, however, no water must be left and the fat must separate from the sauce.—
Tribune News Service,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 June 2025
Noun
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Spending more of your energy and time on local involvement, making a meaningful impact in your actual sphere of influence, will free you of the crushing weight of the whole world’s problems.—
Anastasia G Mcateer,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
19 June 2025
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For that reason, TPG assigned a 25% weight to an airline passenger's experience score to determine its overall ranking.—
Aimee Picchi,
CBS News,
19 June 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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“Obesity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/obesity. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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