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also anoretic
as in anorexic
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Recent Examples of anorectic
Beyond that, signs' late and early parts are called anorectic and critical degrees.
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Lisa Stardust, People.com, 22 Oct. 2024
Lisa Stardust, People.com, 22 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for anorectic
Adjective
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At once too frigid and too promiscuous within the terms of early psychoanalysis, the anorexic woman’s appetites (or lack thereof) were a threat to the cultural order.Anna Shechtman, Harper's Magazine, 2 Mar. 2024
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From much of the plaza, yet another anorexic supertall for squillionaires, rising at 29th Street, now blots it out.Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2023
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Her skeletal remains were then discovered near the junction of two parkways in Queens on August 25, 1991, but her identity remained a mystery—until now.Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 31 Dec. 2024
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Mary Sue Fink was identified a decade after her skeletal remains were found in Honolulu, Hawaii.Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 28 Dec. 2024
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But upon further examination, the animal proved to be an emaciated dwarf sperm whale calf.Leah Sarnoff, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2024
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The Kentucky Humane Society is actively caring for 35 horses at Willow Hope Farm after rescuing 10 in emaciated and neglectful conditions in Franklin County Wednesday morning.Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 20 Dec. 2024
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Gone is the gaunt, skeletal vampire of the 1922 film, replaced by a larger, more intimidating, master of the undead with a mustache and deep voice.Scott Phillips, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
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Videos shared across social media showed gaunt and bewildered prisoners, including toddlers, stumbling out of dark cells into the light.The Week UK, theweek, 14 Dec. 2024
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The face that confronted him was haggard and gaunt, its hair and beard unkempt.Greg Jackson, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
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These are films about a haggard failson trying to hold his life together with the help of a wise-cracking goo monster who longs for the taste of human brains.Charles Pulliam-Moore, The Verge, 24 Oct. 2024
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“Anorectic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/anorectic. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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