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Recent Examples of obesity In 2023, the Academy of American Pediatrics said that obesity medications may be prescribed to children aged 12 and up who are obese, especially children with severe obesity. ​wendy Wisner, Parents, 15 Sep. 2025 Research has already established that children exposed to gestational diabetes in the womb face higher risks of obesity and diabetes later in life. New Atlas, 14 Sep. 2025 While undernutrition is still a significant problem, obesity is now more common almost everywhere except South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 13 Sep. 2025 Mads Claus Rasmussen | Afp | Getty Images Skovronsky thinks that pills could eventually become the primary way that obesity is treated around the world, and that oral drugs could have a larger market share than injectables. Angelica Peebles, CNBC, 12 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for obesity
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Noun
  • However, biofuel production might turn this pathway into a tool for renewable energy, since fats can be converted into fuel.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 13 Sep. 2025
  • This is a rich, almost chewy, Old Fashioned variation where the salinity of the beef fat meets the sweetness of the maple syrup and subtle chocolate undertone.
    Aly Walansky, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • To maintain comparability, the weights assigned to these criteria have been held constant.
    Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
  • This happens when water in front of the tire builds up faster than the vehicle's weight can push water out of the way.
    NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 13 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Breastfeeding, adiposity, and precocious puberty in boys and girls.
    Maria Morava, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • As president, George H.W. Bush compared his dog, Ranger, to a blimp in a playful memo to White House staff noting a need to curb doggie treats because of canine corpulence.
    Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 5 Sep. 2025
  • 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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