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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Moreover, chronic breathlessness can be due to multiple causes (e.g., obesity and heart failure).—
Laura Campedelli,
Verywell Health,
5 June 2025 -
Severe obesity diagnosed in a four-year-old can cut life expectancy in half; Type 2 diabetes, once an adult disease, now appears regularly in overweight teens.—
Ed Gaskin,
Boston Herald,
4 June 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.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
8 June 2025
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At the hospital in Toronto, aides had Sweet sit up in bed to demonstrate how his body had been impacted by his stroke: His left side couldn’t handle the weight and would fold under him.—
David Browne,
Rolling Stone,
7 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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“Rotundity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rotundity. Accessed 12 Jun. 2025.
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