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The candidates are bears in Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska, who are currently busy devouring as many calories as possible to fatten up for winter hibernation.

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026

It’s also possible that retailers, figuring that consumers would expect to pay more for tariffed washing machines and would assume the same effect held for dryers, charged more for the latter to fatten their profits.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2026

Soybean Export Council, a trade group, opened a Beijing office in 1982 to spread the word about protein-packed U.S. soybeans used to fatten livestock.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025

James Canton spent two years sitting beneath an 800-year-old oak tree near his home in Essex, watching acorns fatten and butterflies land on the massive knurled grey trunk.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2025

If you could buy shoats on credit, fatten them on food that cost next to nothing, sell them, pay off your loan, and take your profit, you would really have done something.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

It also fattens the wallet for those who help it happen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 3, 2026

Corn is a part of modern life in all sorts of ways: It fattens up livestock and gets turned into biofuels.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2021

Wansink’s fall is both singular and parabolic: It can be taken as a moral teaching on what happens when an expert gorges on his good intentions and fattens off his expertise.

From Slate ● Feb. 28, 2018

Rosario is the biggest soy-crushing hub in the Americas, where 22 plants process 157,500 tonnes of soybeans per day into soyoil and feed that fattens livestock in markets from the United Kingdom to Indonesia.

From Reuters ● Feb. 28, 2018

Everywhere there are limits, but the thin fattens, the cloudy clears.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen

At around six-months-old they are bought by companies that run feedlots – large yards where the animals are fattened on corn and other grains for the final three to six months of their lives.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

On Monday, the September contract for feeder cattle FCU26 — those that are fattened up for slaughter — fell 2.8% to end at $3.32 per pound in Chicago.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026

Chey’s ex-wife now wants an appeals court to grant her a higher proportion of Chey’s fortune, fattened by the global AI frenzy, using an updated asset valuation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

They are used to supply farms where they are fattened up for sale in Asia where eels are a highly sought delicacy.

From Barron's ● Nov. 18, 2025

Now, fattened up on mice and wearing a thicker coat of fur, he was content to play outdoors most days.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson

In a surprising finding, certain diets typically considered "unhealthy" or "fattening" actually improved responses to a common form of cancer immunotherapy in mice.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2026

He would hold them for around three months, for the intermediate stage in their lives called backgrounding, because the animals build up health and immunity before being sold again to feedlots for final fattening.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026

He likens the effect of these chemicals on water-born bacteria to offering hungry humans a roomful of fattening fast food.

From BBC ● May 10, 2025

All of my friends are, like, anorexic basically, or have some form of eating disorder, so it’s hard to get people to eat fattening food with me.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2025

“I didn’t think so, but why else were they fattening me up?”

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone