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
Programs targeting infant mortality, youth violence, smoking, maternal and child health, mental health, obesity, lead poisoning and infectious disease tracking have been slashed.
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Stan Chu Ilo, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2025
Several drugmakers, including Novo Nordisk's chief rival Eli Lilly, have been racing to develop obesity pills, which may help alleviate the supply shortfalls and issues accessing the injections on the market.
—Annika Kim Constantino,ashley Capoot, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2025
Additional risks include low birth weight, birth via Caesarian section, maternal obesity, and even parental age older than 40.
—Judy Stone, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Keeping in mind all the different things that affect a child's health is critical for pediatricians who treat obesity, according to Crimmins.
—Elizabeth B. Kim, The Enquirer, 2 Sep. 2025
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Stan Chu Ilo, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2025
Several drugmakers, including Novo Nordisk's chief rival Eli Lilly, have been racing to develop obesity pills, which may help alleviate the supply shortfalls and issues accessing the injections on the market.
—Annika Kim Constantino,ashley Capoot, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2025
Additional risks include low birth weight, birth via Caesarian section, maternal obesity, and even parental age older than 40.
—Judy Stone, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Keeping in mind all the different things that affect a child's health is critical for pediatricians who treat obesity, according to Crimmins.
—Elizabeth B. Kim, The Enquirer, 2 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for obesity
Noun
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Saturated and Trans Fats Eating too much saturated fat and trans fat may be linked to prostate cancer.—
Merve Ceylan,
Health,
7 Sep. 2025
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Soldiers on the academic improvement track have performed slightly better than soldiers in the body fat reduction track.—
Cybele Mayes-Osterman,
USA Today,
6 Sep. 2025
Noun
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This happens when water in front of the tire builds up faster than the vehicle's weight can push water out of the way.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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Programs run from four days to two weeks and guests can focus on advanced longevity, an approach to slow cellular aging; a weight loss program; a stress relief option and corporate program to deal with leadership performance; and one to that seekds to rebalance and reenergize.—
Sherrie Nachman,
Forbes.com,
7 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Breastfeeding, adiposity, and precocious puberty in boys and girls.—
Maria Morava,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Aug. 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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Twelve bears started in the celebration of corpulence on September 29 before the final online showdown Tuesday.—
CNN,
CNN,
5 Oct. 2021
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“Obesity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/obesity. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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