corpulent
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Colombian artist Fernando Botero, who gained worldwide fame with his sculptures and paintings of corpulent figures, has died at the age of 91.
From BBC • Sep. 15, 2023
We have impressive caviar-punctuated omakases and dragon-roll specials so corpulent and substantially garnished that they require steak knives.
From New York Times • Jan. 4, 2022
An FBI agent reprises his disguise as a corpulent old lady and takes a job as a nanny in a crime suspect’s house.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 26, 2019
As corpulent and as unwieldy as the film’s vision of London is — sluggish, lumbering and clumsy — the movie isn’t something you savor so much as swallow whole, without tasting it.
From Washington Post • Dec. 12, 2018
A few adventurous members of the gentler sex took to wearing ridiculous “windshield hats,” watermelon-sized fabric balloons, equipped with little glass windows, that fit over the entire head, leaving ample room for corpulent Victorian coiffures.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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