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Recent Examples of nonnutritious
What’s more, a dietitian’s ire is often reserved first and foremost for cheap nonnutritious foods.
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Bon Appétit, 20 Apr. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonnutritious
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The change comes amid concerns about fireworks causing unhealthful air.—
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Health professionals encourage people to use lean cuts of meat because most of the fat in animal products is unhealthful saturated fat, which can raise the risk of heart disease and cancer.—
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The single mom's unhealthy path had started years before.—
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Binge eating or an unhealthy relationship with food could develop.—
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But unlike Materialists, those movies—pictures like Leo McCarey’s The Awful Truth or Preston Sturges’ The Palm Beach Story—emerged in a time when Hollywood censors were keeping a close eye on movies’ ideology, determined to protect audiences from unwholesome influences.—
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By mid-afternoon the weather turned downright unwholesome.—
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Then she’s saddled with the noxious task of trying to convince Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) to kill herself for the greater good, only to reverse course at the last second and save her?—
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Shrouded in mist and prone to spewing noxious green goop over windows, their true form remains a mystery throughout.—
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But the industry, and small businesses such as the cigar factory, run on low wages, long hours and unsafe, unsanitary working conditions.—
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The facility had unsanitary tape on the faucet sprayer.—
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Investigators uncovered more than 190 decomposing bodies last year inside the Penrose facility, many stored in unhygienic conditions.—
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In-person inspections are widely recognized as essential for uncovering unhygienic practices, equipment failures, and falsified safety data that cannot be detected by reviewing paperwork or inspecting shipments at ports of entry.—
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The blackout slashed internet access to a fraction of normal levels on the 13th day of the protests as rights groups, including Amensty International, accused the regime of using lethal force against protesters.—
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An 11-week-old baby died in 2024 in Lakewood because a bottle of baby formula fed to him was contaminated with lethal amounts of methamphetamine.—
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“Nonnutritious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonnutritious. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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