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Recent Examples of anorectic
Beyond that, signs' late and early parts are called anorectic and critical degrees.
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Lisa Stardust, People.com, 22 Oct. 2024
Lisa Stardust, People.com, 22 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for anorectic
Adjective
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At once too frigid and too promiscuous within the terms of early psychoanalysis, the anorexic woman’s appetites (or lack thereof) were a threat to the cultural order.—
Anna Shechtman,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Mar. 2024
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From much of the plaza, yet another anorexic supertall for squillionaires, rising at 29th Street, now blots it out.—
Michael Kimmelman,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2023
Adjective
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Trove of artifacts Between the two mounds, archaeologists uncovered about 1,000 artifacts — including the skeletal remains of several dozen people.—
Brendan Rascius,
Miami Herald,
30 Jan. 2025
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What To Know On Thursday, the Chihuahua Attorney General's Office said clandestine graves with bodies and skeletal remains had been found over the previous week near the town of Casas Grandes, in the northern Mexican state.—
Gordon G. Chang,
Newsweek,
25 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Those that did not starve to death weren’t much better off: emaciated, sick and unable to produce healthy young.—
Kevin Spear,
Orlando Sentinel,
19 Jan. 2025
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Most of them resurfaced on their own over the last few months, police said, and all the survivors have been arrested, even as some emerged this week badly emaciated and barely able to walk to waiting ambulances.—
Mogomotsi Magome and Gerald Imray,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Her face is agonized and gaunt but her expression betrays some optimism.—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
19 Dec. 2024
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The face that looked back at her in the rearview mirror was gaunt, her skin pale around glassy hazel eyes.—
Glenn E. Rice,
Kansas City Star,
7 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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The face that confronted him was haggard and gaunt, its hair and beard unkempt.—
Greg Jackson,
The New Yorker,
3 Nov. 2024
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These are films about a haggard failson trying to hold his life together with the help of a wise-cracking goo monster who longs for the taste of human brains.—
Charles Pulliam-Moore,
The Verge,
24 Oct. 2024
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“Anorectic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/anorectic. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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