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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
Adjective
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Her attacks often left behind nothing but chilling remnants—torn garments, skeletal remains and the haunting echoes of her roars.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes,
16 Jan. 2025
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The discovery of human remains in Taylorsville, North Carolina, is one of several recent incidents across the U.S. where skeletal remains have been found in remote or unexpected locations.—
Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell,
Newsweek,
15 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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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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Visitors’ eyes widen in horror at the sight of the mutilated and emaciated bodies filling the morgue.—
Dominique Soguel,
The Christian Science Monitor,
20 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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The face that looked back at her in the rearview mirror was gaunt, her skin pale around glassy hazel eyes.—
Glenn E. Rice,
Kansas City Star,
7 Jan. 2025
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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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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 22 Jan. 2025.
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