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malnourished

[mal-nur-isht, -nuhr-] / mælˈnɜr ɪʃt, -ˈnʌr- /




ADJECTIVE
undersized
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When an AI model is dispensing advice, it doesn’t know the difference between a body builder who wants to lift heavier weights and is consuming enough protein and a malnourished person who isn’t.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026

“If they’re malnourished, they’re going to get sicker. If their parents don’t get affordable care, they’re going to be strapped. It becomes a synergistic and multiplicative cascade.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2026

But even if that happens, it will be malnourished, vulnerable to infection and less able to devote the energy needed for reproduction.

From Barron's ● May 22, 2026

Several of these camps have made headlines as the women and children living in them are severely malnourished and lack access to basic resources.

From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2026

Poorly dressed and malnourished, they faced lethal diseases like dysentery, smallpox, and typhus—epidemics typical in army camps where basic sanitation was poor and drinking water carried deadly germs.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis




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