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mass in

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verb

(adverb) to fill or block in (the areas of unified colour, shade, etc) in a painting or drawing

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A 2024 review found that intermittent fasting may be associated with small reductions in waist circumference and fat mass in people who are overweight or obese.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

"If you have less mass in the system overall, things can gently orbit each other without whipping back and forth," Burdge says.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026

Later Monday, Leo rode in his popemobile through Metz and celebrated mass in St. Stephen's Cathedral, a jewel of Gothic architecture famous for its stained-glass windows.

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

Pope Leo XIV gave a mass in central Paris on Saturday, as the city turned into a "huge open air cathedral," BBC religion editor Aleem Maqbool reports.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

Zwicky also was the first to recognize that there wasn’t nearly enough visible mass in the universe to hold galaxies together and that there must be some other gravitational influence–what we now call dark matter.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

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