malnourished
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My cousin Qiaolian once told me about the day she first met me: I was a malnourished, dusty and snotty infant, not even a full year old, wrapped in a dirty blanket and kept hidden.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026
"About 1.3 million children are moderately malnourished, 700,000 suffer from acute malnutrition and 900,000 mothers are moderately to severely malnourished," ministry spokesman Sharafat Zaman told AFP.
From Barron's • Jan. 17, 2026
That’s when so much critical development takes place, and children who are malnourished can never make up the loss.
From MarketWatch • Dec. 24, 2025
It comes as the BBC has found that soaring numbers of people are arriving at hospital either malnourished or with nutrient deficiencies.
From BBC • Nov. 19, 2025
On the whole, she looked unkempt and malnourished, close to death.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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