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
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
We’d eat at a table next to a mural of a corpulent iguana wearing sunglasses and a sombrero.
From Washington Post • May 15, 2019
Instead Mr. Sinton wrings his corpulent instrument for its full range of values: toneless smears; soul-baring swells; chomping, roughed-up blasts.
From New York Times • Sep. 22, 2017
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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