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- noun Plural form of
slimmer .
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Examples
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PARIS (AFP) To combat a growing problem of obesity in France, a new baguette for slimmers is to be launched next week in boulangeries across the country.
Seattle Bon Vivant: 2005
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We note, at any rate, that Mrs Middleton has yet to pose in the accepted manner of triumphant slimmers, inside the gargantuan, elastic-waisted jeans worn by her obese self, alongside the headline: "I cried when I realised I would not fit through the door of the Abbey".
Rich pickings from living off the fat of the land | Catherine Bennett 2011
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A high-protein diet devised by a Frenchman, it claims to mirror the healthy menu of early man, presumably excluding the mammoth's testicles, and has edged out the Atkins, which a few years ago half the women slimmers were on, trying to be on or had come off because they thought it made them smell like compost.
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For centuries, women have wriggled into girdles and other slimmers to minimize their rear ends.
Goodbye, Girdle: Curvy Stars Spark A Raid on Padded Panties 2010
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A former investment banker, Winton Rossiter, foresees "an emerging weight incentive industry", using cash rewards for successful slimmers.
Is bribery really the best way to wean people off chips? 2010
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Polar opposites in childhood, finding middle ground as adults, I met up with Denise Austin, fitness guru, to discuss saddlebag slimmers and fit bottoms.
Janice Taylor: Dish The Dirt: Denise Austin On Saddlebag Slimmers & Fit Bottoms 2009
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The lesson learned here is that there are many painless financial slimmers all around us.
Jill Brooke: Rename Cost-Cutting Financial Slimmers And It Doesn't Feel So Bad - What Are Yours? 2009
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This is "The New Normal" and since necessity is the mother of invention, revel in your resourcefulness and share your financial slimmers with us.
Jill Brooke: Rename Cost-Cutting Financial Slimmers And It Doesn't Feel So Bad - What Are Yours? 2009
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If only 15 out of 10000 slimmers make it and stay slim, then badgering people to eat less is pointless -- it doesn't work, never has and never will.
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To test if encouraging slimmers to photograph everything they eat might also encourage them to change their diet, scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison asked
Make a Snapshot of your Meals to help your Diet | ultraorange.net 2008
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