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stretchmarks

British

/ ˈstrɛtʃˌmɑːks /

plural noun

marks that remain visible on the abdomen after its distension, esp in pregnancy

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Unless she sees the telltale signs of Cushing’s, like stretchmarks on a patient’s thighs and stomach, central obesity, high blood pressure, and high blood sugar, she doesn’t worry that their cortisol is too high.

From Slate • Sep. 9, 2025

Cabello went on to embrace her cellulite and stretchmarks in the video.

From Fox News • Jul. 17, 2021

"We are real women with curves and cellulite and stretchmarks and fat. And we gotta own that, baby."

From Fox News • Jul. 17, 2021

To call stretchmarks “tiger stripes” is to imply that the marks themselves can only be borne if we learn to see them as something that we have earned.

From The Guardian • Jul. 16, 2014

With seven silver stretchmarks from her two-egg twins, born to her by candlelight amid news of a lost war.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

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