as in obesity
the condition of having an excess of body fat
clothes for women who may be inclined to embonpoint but who still want to look stylish
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Sleep deprivation is linked to heart disease, cognitive decline, obesity and numerous other problems.—
Lauran Neergaard,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Mar. 2025 -
But a survey last year by the benefits consultant Mercer said fewer half of large employers covered GLP-1 drugs for obesity.—
Ken Alltucker,
USA TODAY,
2 Mar. 2025
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The United States has a population of almost 350 million, giving it the economic and geopolitical weight to act decisively on the global stage.—
Gordon G. Chang,
Newsweek,
3 Mar. 2025
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Lack of deep sleep can cause fatigue and affect form when weight lifting.12 Add in other activities: Pair some aerobic exercises with your weight-lifting regimen.—
Sherri Gordon,
Health,
3 Mar. 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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These included long, woolly hair and a way of metabolizing fat that helped the animals survive well in the cold.—
Rob Stein,
NPR,
4 Mar. 2025
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Like woolly mammoths, these mice have curlier hair — which is the same color of the mammoth mummies found in the permafrost — as well as a gene that should impact the way their bodies metabolize fat.—
Susan Young,
People.com,
4 Mar. 2025
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“Embonpoint.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/embonpoint. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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