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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

I, too, will fatten up this winter, whether I want to or not.

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026

Neither did the temporary suspension of export taxes for grain dealers, which generated dollar inflows but didn’t fatten the bank’s war chest because there was also lots of peso selling.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2025

Wilson’s phalaropes feed and fatten up at Mono Lake before their migration to South America.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 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

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

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

Put it all together, and the Dodgers have taken one of the best rosters in baseball and fattened it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 24, 2025

From the rear—particularly where his vertebrae were visible—he might almost have passed for one of those needy metropolitan children who are sent out every summer to endowed camps to be fattened and sunned.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger

Wheat grains shrivelled instead of fattening, and the yield plummeted.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 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

Monday’s game offered yet another example of how the team that supposedly is ruining baseball is fattening the wallets of the league’s other 29 teams.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2026

Typically, once calves reach six or eight months, they are weaned and sent to larger, industrial pastures to roam in vast herds, fattening on grass, though this pastoral interlude is a short one.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2024

“Am I not?” cries Obsle, fattening out like a great hob-fish.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin