as in obesity
the condition of having an excess of body fat
finally a diet that really worked, allowing her to forget about her rotundity and focus on her health
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Noun
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David Allison, the dean of the public-health school at Indiana University-Bloomington and an obesity researcher who, along with Peter Attia, has advised Rahal, frames it differently.—
Hannah Goldfield,
New Yorker,
21 Apr. 2025 -
There are seven late-stage studies on the pill, including five diabetes trials and two obesity studies.—
Annika Kim Constantino,
CNBC,
17 Apr. 2025
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By 2016, President Obama put his weight behind the movement with the Computer Science for All initiative.—
James V. Shuls,
National Review,
20 Apr. 2025
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But the procession carried even more weight this year.—
Eduardo Cuevas,
USA Today,
20 Apr. 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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“Rotundity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rotundity. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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