anorexic

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Recent Examples of anorexic 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 In February, her daughter passed out—probably from low blood pressure, a common health complication in anorexic patients—and went to the emergency room. — Sumathi Reddy, WSJ, 21 June 2021 When Klara ends up in the local hospital’s anorexic ward, David and Laura must resort to even more desperate measures, which paradoxically help thaw out their own emotional cold war. — Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 25 Sep. 2025 In 2022, Austrian director Marie Kreutzer released Corsage, the excellent feminist re-reading of the life of 19th century Empress Elizabeth, known as Sissi, with Vicki Krieps as the eccentric, anorexic empress and Florian Teichtmeister as her philandering husband, Franz Joseph I. — Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 15 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for anorexic
Recent Examples of Synonyms for anorexic
  1. anorectic
  2. emaciated
  3. gaunt
  4. skeletal
  5. haggard
  6. lanky
  7. weedy
  8. cadaverous
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  • Beyond that, signs' late and early parts are called anorectic and critical degrees.
    — Lisa Stardust, People.com, 22 Oct. 2024
Definition of anorectic
Adjective
  • Among those transferred out was Flora, a 10-year-old brindle shepherd who the organization said came in emaciated and missing her left front leg.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 June 2026
  • Police found Nola’s emaciated body wrapped in plastic inside a suitcase.
    — Escher Walcott, PEOPLE, 9 June 2026
Definition of emaciated
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  • The church’s punishment, however, delivered in front of the congregants, is an eerie ritual performed by a gaunt, severe visitor (Nicholas Hope).
    — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2026
  • Brig is in the Upper Valais, a gaunt and conservative place where the inhabitants speak Walliser German, an Alpine dialect that many Swiss people find unintelligible.
    — Sam Knight, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
Definition of gaunt
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  • There are existing methods for cleaning skeletal remains, such as burial, digestive enzymes, or chemical treatments.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 1 July 2026
  • An experiment on mice conducted by a team of researchers from Texas A&M University has revealed a healing sequence in mammalian physiology that rebuilds lost skeletal structure, albeit with less than perfect results.
    — Mike McRae June 28, New Atlas, 28 June 2026
Definition of skeletal
Adjective
  • Rocking back and forth nervously during a television appearance, a haggard-looking Diaz-Canel acknowledged the same talks, which his government had denied were taking place just days before.
    — Patrick Oppmann, CNN Money, 22 Mar. 2026
  • Wrexham, meanwhile, was near the bottom, struggling in England’s lowest division under a haggard fan-ownership group keeping it on life support.
    — Justin Birnbaum, Sportico.com, 6 Mar. 2026
Definition of haggard
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  • Gray, a lanky man with a gray mustache, volunteers as a docent at the Museum of Flight in Seattle, just across from Boeing Field.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 12 June 2026
  • Green's first two seasons in college went according to script and the lanky downfield threat was as good as advertised, earning first-team All-SEC honors in back-to-back years.
    — Austin Perry OutKick, FOXNews.com, 9 June 2026
Definition of lanky
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  • Jeon-Gi lives with his Korean family in Building A, scrapping with kids from other immigrant families in a weedy playground.
    — Hamilton Cain, Time, 7 July 2026
  • Your neighbors probably won't be bothered by your weedy flower beds or rusty lawn furniture.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 30 June 2026
Definition of weedy
Adjective
  • Die große Nacht im Eimer (The Big Night Down the Drain), made that year, depicts a figure of indiscernible age with a cadaverous pallor and yellow splotches, brandishing an oversized phallus beneath a soot-black veil.
    — Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 30 Apr. 2026
  • As the hulking creature, the Australian star appears to have pale, cadaverous skin with lacerations across it and long, stringy hair.
    — Jack Smart, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025
Definition of cadaverous

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