as in plump
having an excess of body fat
an overweight person who had difficulty running even a short distance
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David Faris, Newsweek, 27 Dec. 2024
The Lancet study referred to at the beginning of this article projects that a staggering 81.1% of adult males and 82.1% of adult females will be overweight and obese by 2050.
—New Atlas, 25 Dec. 2024
David Faris, Newsweek, 27 Dec. 2024
According to FactSet, 77% rate the stock a buy or overweight; only one is at a sell.
—Christina Cheddar Berk, CNBC, 23 Dec. 2024
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Adjective
The rate of obese and overweight people in the nation has grown considerably in the past three decades: in 1990, according to the study, just over half of U.S. adults were overweight or obese.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 27 Dec. 2024
The Lancet study referred to at the beginning of this article projects that a staggering 81.1% of adult males and 82.1% of adult females will be overweight and obese by 2050.
—New Atlas, 25 Dec. 2024
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Crucially, the number of young people being obese or overweight has risen significantly.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 27 Dec. 2024
According to FactSet, 77% rate the stock a buy or overweight; only one is at a sell.
—Christina Cheddar Berk, CNBC, 23 Dec. 2024
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Some winners: Hyaluronic acid draws water into the skin to keep it plump and hydrated.Jessica Kasparian, SELF, 10 Jan. 2025
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The ultimate shrimp scampi offers perfectly plump shrimp in a garlicky, lemony, white wine sauce.Robin Miller, The Arizona Republic, 3 Jan. 2025
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The advisory notes that alcohol is the third leading preventable cause of cancer in the country, after tobacco and obesity.Sarah Lynch Baldwin, CBS News, 3 Jan. 2025
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Alcohol consumption is the third leading preventable cause of cancer in the United States, after tobacco and obesity, according to the surgeon general's advisory.Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 3 Jan. 2025
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With less water and more body fat than men, Whyte explains that alcohol becomes more concentrated in a woman’s system, leading to faster intoxication and prolonged exposure to its effects.Sandra Rose Salathe, Flow Space, 13 Jan. 2025
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Unlike carbohydrates and fat—the other two macronutrients—protein doesn’t come with the same kind of cultural stigma.Kari Sonde, TIME, 13 Jan. 2025
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With this, fat builds up in the liver, mostly from being overweight or obese.Cindy Krischer Goodman, Sun Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2025
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Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination study show that between 2021-2023, 40% of Americans were obese, with 9.7% designated as severely obese.Karlyn Bowman, Forbes, 8 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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By midnight, the wolf moon should glow bright and round overhead before disappearing at sunrise into the western horizon.Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2025
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In other first round playoff games, the Houston Texans play host to the surging Los Angeles Chargers on Saturday and the Denver Broncos will visit the Buffalo Bills on Sunday afternoon in the final AFC game.Jack Magruder, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
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“Overweight.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overweight. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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