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
However, the incidence of cancers associated with obesity grew during the 20-year study period.
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Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 23 Apr. 2025
Although the drugs have been on the market for years, they were more recently approved to treat obesity, thus increasing usage and the costs.
—Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 22 Apr. 2025
Cantor Fitzgerald initiates Eli Lilly as overweight Cantor said the biopharma company is still well positioned in the obesity market.
—Michael Bloom, CNBC, 22 Apr. 2025
David Allison, the dean of the public-health school at Indiana University-Bloomington and an obesity researcher who, along with Peter Attia, has advised Rahal, frames it differently.
—Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2025
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Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 23 Apr. 2025
Although the drugs have been on the market for years, they were more recently approved to treat obesity, thus increasing usage and the costs.
—Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 22 Apr. 2025
Cantor Fitzgerald initiates Eli Lilly as overweight Cantor said the biopharma company is still well positioned in the obesity market.
—Michael Bloom, CNBC, 22 Apr. 2025
David Allison, the dean of the public-health school at Indiana University-Bloomington and an obesity researcher who, along with Peter Attia, has advised Rahal, frames it differently.
—Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for obesity
Noun
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An observed loss of body fat and protein reserves was evidently a trade-off for resistance to mites.—
Elizabeth Rayne,
ArsTechnica,
2 May 2025
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Improve heart health Produce vitamin D Make bile acids, which play a role in the digestion and absorption of fats in the intestines.—
Emmanuella Ogbonna,
Health,
2 May 2025
Noun
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But Trump's may hold more weight Under the Constitution, Congress has the power of the purse.—
Danielle Kurtzleben,
NPR,
2 May 2025
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Overweight or obesity: Having a higher body weight increases the pressure on the veins in your legs.—
Sarah Hudgens,
Health,
2 May 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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“Obesity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/obesity. Accessed 17 May. 2025.
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