rialto
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See also: Rialto
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]By extension from the marketplace activity of the Rialto in Venice.
Noun
[edit]rialto (plural rialtos or rialtoes)
- (rare) A marketplace, literally or figuratively.
- 2025 January 13, Virginia Heffernan, “The King of Ozempic Is Scared as Hell. Now that Novo Nordisk is the world’s weight-loss juggernaut, will it have to betray its first patients—type 1 diabetics?”, in Wired[1]:
- Since word of semaglutide’s slimming effects hit the diet-culture rialto, people have been clamoring for it. In 2022, the FDA listed semaglutide drugs as in shortage. People who couldn’t wait for the real thing began to turn to specialized pharmacies that cook up Ozempic knock-offs as if it were bathtub gin, sometimes with tragic results.
Italian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]rialto m (plural rialti)
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