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Recent Examples of overfeed
Her methods, the court concluded, included injecting premature infants with air or insulin, overfeeding them, and harming them with medical tools.
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The Week Uk, theweek, 28 July 2024
Avoid overfeeding or feeding your baby too quickly.
—Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 12 July 2024
Infants might also react to overfeeding or a gas-inducing food in their nursing parent’s diet.
—Kaitlin Bell, Parents, 6 Feb. 2024
During the trial, prosecutors alleged that Letby killed five boys and two girls and attempted to kill another five boys and five girls in the hospital’s neonatal unit by poisoning them with insulin, injecting air into their veins or overfeeding them with milk.
—Annabelle Timsit, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
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The Week Uk, theweek, 28 July 2024
Avoid overfeeding or feeding your baby too quickly.
—Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 12 July 2024
Infants might also react to overfeeding or a gas-inducing food in their nursing parent’s diet.
—Kaitlin Bell, Parents, 6 Feb. 2024
During the trial, prosecutors alleged that Letby killed five boys and two girls and attempted to kill another five boys and five girls in the hospital’s neonatal unit by poisoning them with insulin, injecting air into their veins or overfeeding them with milk.
—Annabelle Timsit, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overfeed
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Lack of sleep is known to increase hunger hormones (like ghrelin) and decrease satiety hormones, like leptin, which can cause users to overeat, undermining how GLP-1s suppress appetite.—
Lauryn Higgins,
Flow Space,
6 Mar. 2025
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This can be challenging, as there is a tendency to overeat in the evenings, especially as the breaking of the fast is often a family event with lots of delicious foods.—
Devinder Bains,
Vogue,
28 Feb. 2025
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As Israel gluts the present with death and destruction, the future perfect has become a means of stirring timid Americans out of indifference and into something like sympathy for Palestinian lives.—
Lauren Michele Jackson,
The New Yorker,
24 June 2024
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There are small evolutions of technology and cultural attitudes, but in a TV landscape glutted by dystopias, having any optimism about life 30-ish years in the future borders on revolutionary.—
Daniel Fienberg,
The Hollywood Reporter,
3 Sep. 2019
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Pandas and Tasty Bamboo There are over 1,000 species of bamboo, though pandas only snack on about 25 of them.—
Monica Cull,
Discover Magazine,
27 Feb. 2025
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Stone posed for photographers (and snacked on a bucket of popcorn) while wearing a custom red, floor-length Louis Vuitton gown, which had two pockets filled with the treat as well.—
Carly Tagen-Dye,
People.com,
17 Feb. 2025
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“Overfeed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overfeed. Accessed 14 Mar. 2025.
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