rialto

plural rialtos · plural rialtoes

1. rareA marketplace, literally or figuratively.

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   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.

   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. A central area of San Polo sestiere, Venice, Veneto, Italy.
2. A comune in Savona province, Liguria, Italy.
3. A city in San Bernardino County, California, United States.