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For Wilson’s phalaropes, Mono Lake is often their last chance to fatten up before flying nonstop to South America.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

October is traditionally a time when many Scottish farmers sell "store" cattle or lambs to other farmers who will fatten them up further.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

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

And that may not change soon as high stock prices continue to fatten travel budgets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

Now he caught it and put it in a pen made of logs, to fatten.

From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 3, 2026

The weaker yen helps make Japanese exports more competitive overseas and fattens profits when they are converted from dollars to yen, but it also raises costs both for consumers and businesses.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 19, 2022

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

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

It even fattened the wallets of big names who chose to stay on the PGA mothership.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 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

The beard fattened up his already plump face.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

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

That isn’t enough to sway the gladiatorial majority, which is mostly made up of men grinning at the fattening piggy bank suspended above them.

From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2025

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

"It is good, isn't it? It's fattening, though. All that cream."

From "All About Sam" by Lois Lowry