as in heaviness
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Noun
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One reviewer said the anti-aging cream immediately adds plumpness to their face.—
Lauren Taylor,
Southern Living,
11 Feb. 2025 -
The sauteed octopus is cooked to tender plumpness and comes with chorizo chips and a delectable chili sauce.—
Katie Sweeney,
Forbes,
26 Nov. 2024
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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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The patients of Los Angeles internist and obesity specialist Pooja Gidwani are microdosing GLP-1s as part of a longevity approach.—
Beth Landman,
The Hollywood Reporter,
8 Feb. 2025
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Zoom out: The states with the highest rates of GLP-1 prescriptions are also the states with the highest obesity rates, with West Virginia at the top of both lists.—
Erin Alberty,
Axios,
7 Feb. 2025
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“Chunkiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chunkiness. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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