as in fatness
the condition of having an excess of body fat
obesity has been linked to a number of health risks, such as heart disease
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Recent Examples of obesity
Prices are falling for the popular obesity treatments Wegovy and Zepbound, but steady access to the drugs remains challenging.
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Tom Murphy, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2025
People who don’t get enough shut-eye are at higher risk of heart disease and obesity.
—Nicholas Florko, The Atlantic, 7 July 2025
Northwestern Medicine has launched a program to help patients who have concerns related to obesity and are planning a pregnancy.
—Katherine Weaver, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2025
Here’s What the Research Showed The study, funded by the National Mango Board, involved 48 adult men ages 20-60 who had overweight or obesity and chronic low-grade inflammation.
—Lauren Manaker Ms, Health, 28 June 2025
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Tom Murphy, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2025
People who don’t get enough shut-eye are at higher risk of heart disease and obesity.
—Nicholas Florko, The Atlantic, 7 July 2025
Northwestern Medicine has launched a program to help patients who have concerns related to obesity and are planning a pregnancy.
—Katherine Weaver, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2025
Here’s What the Research Showed The study, funded by the National Mango Board, involved 48 adult men ages 20-60 who had overweight or obesity and chronic low-grade inflammation.
—Lauren Manaker Ms, Health, 28 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for obesity
Noun
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This ensures that the fats on the meat do not start to get warm and degrade the steak.—
Taylor Tobin,
Southern Living,
6 July 2025
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For example, on stage six, Healy’s breakfast demands are to consume 1,103 calories, including 225g of carbohydrate, 24g of protein, and 14g of fat.—
Jacob Whitehead,
New York Times,
12 July 2025
Noun
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Therefore, the weight of the evidence shifted in favor of the market bulls and limits the market risk.—
Tom Aspray,
Forbes.com,
13 July 2025
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For years, body weight and health have been linked together.—
arkansasonline.com,
arkansasonline.com,
13 July 2025
Noun
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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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“Obesity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/obesity. Accessed 22 Jul. 2025.
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