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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The obesity epidemic is causing a huge amount of health issues in this country.—
Angelica Stabile,
Fox News,
27 Jan. 2025 -
People who don’t get enough sleep are at higher risk for obesity, high blood pressure, heart attack, diabetes and depression, O’Keefe said.—
Eduardo Cuevas,
USA TODAY,
26 Jan. 2025
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Think narrow sections with extra weight in the middle to give you more control for day-to-day styling at home.—
Fiona Embleton,
Glamour,
25 Jan. 2025
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Gypsy-Rose Blanchard is denying rumors about her recent weight loss after giving birth to her baby girl.—
Charna Flam,
People.com,
25 Jan. 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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Use a large spoon to skim off and discard excess fat from the surface of the sauce.—
Cathy Thomas,
Orange County Register,
28 Jan. 2025
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That’s a difference of 114 calories and 14 grams of fat.—
Sohaib Imtiaz,
Verywell Health,
27 Jan. 2025
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“Embonpoint.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/embonpoint. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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