pro-ana
Britishadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of pro-ana
C21: from pro- + an ( orexi ) a
Example Sentences
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This spring, France extended the crusade to the offline world: Lawmakers passed a new criminal offense, “l’incitation à la maigreur excessive,” or inciting excessive thinness, that could finally put pro-ana bloggers in prison.
From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2015
In an article published last month, Canadian criminologists Debra Langan and Nicole Schott could find “no scholarly evidence” that pro-ana blogs pose a threat to their audiences.
From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2015
That strengthens their influence over their audience and reduces opportunities for pro-ana and pro-recovery communities to mix.
From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2015
Vice’s Nadja Brenneisen recently spent a week posing as a teen in a pro-ana WhatsApp group where girls praised an old-school “goddess of emaciation” and monitored each other’s diets with tyrannical zeal.
From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2015
Various studies have suggested that visiting pro-ana sites can stoke body anxieties, that visiting pro-recovery sites can stoke body anxieties, and that visiting Facebook can stoke body anxieties.
From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2015
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