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fat

[fat] / fæt /


ADJECTIVE
containing an oily substance
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When more glucose is available than the body needs, some of that excess energy can ultimately be stored as fat.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2026

The mice also lost weight, suggesting that converting excess glucose rather than allowing it to contribute to fat storage could offer an additional metabolic benefit.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2026

Some evidence suggests that when weight returns, the body may regain proportionally more fat than lean tissue.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026

Laboratory experiments with liver cells isolated from mice showed that pyruvate and fructose worked together to increase fat storage in those cells.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026

One year, during a harsh winter frost, Clare had taken the blanket from his own bed and wrapped it around Captain’s fat beige stem to ensure he’d survive the night.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

As these precursor cells mature, they must build new cellular structures, produce fats, and activate genes that allow them to specialize in storing energy.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026

His first beat was covering oils, fats and waxes for the weekly trade periodical Chemical Market Reporter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

While industrial trans fats are strongly associated with heart disease, the naturally occurring forms found in dairy did not appear to carry the same risk.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026

A new study suggests that the trans fats naturally present in dairy foods, including milk, butter, and cheese, do not increase the risk of heart disease or type 2 diabetes.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026

We arrive home fifteen minutes later with two bags full of trans fats Dad never would have touched in the Before.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

Retailers like private-label products because they allow the chains to undercut competitors on price, control production and advertising costs, and deliver fatter margins, retail analysts say.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026

Campbell says they "played around" with how much the ball was blown up, adding: "In previous weeks it was actually a bit fatter, and then this week it definitely feels smaller."

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

I never became “unrecognizable,” and I spent more time than I’d like to admit looking at myself in the mirror and comparing what I saw to photos of the younger, fatter version of myself.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

But weakening domestic sales are pushing manufacturers like Zhang to seek fatter margins abroad, where consumers have more purchasing power.

From Barron's ● Aug. 9, 2026

He only grew fatter and more frightened, until Lord Randyll's disappointment turned to anger and then to loathing.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

What makes this species particularly remarkable is its unusually thick, barrel-shaped internal skeleton, earning it the distinction of being the "chunkiest" or "fattest" belemnite ever identified.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026

Sometimes we all need some joy in life, such as contemplating the fattest bears without all the other gloomy stuff in the world.

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026

“It’s the early Christian that gets the fattest lion.”

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026

“The fattest chicken is in Belgium but there are other chickens around,” De Wever said last month.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2025

"But Igor Barkov has offered to trade his fattest pig for her. I can't compete with that."

From "Holes" by Louis Sachar

Finally, with the infrastructure in place and the new money flowing, the Dodgers then opened their fatted wallet for the players that created the championship.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2024

The film also captures a tradition that would soon disappear from New Orleans Mardi Gras — the “boeuf gras,” or fatted ox, paraded around the city.

From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2022

He tried this flop shot from there and kind of fatted it and came up short.

From Golf Digest ● Apr. 4, 2017

“If you have a fatted goose, it’s not going to walk well,” he says.

From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2015

I could tell he had not considered the possibility that all the fatted ships he had traveled so far to plunder might be at the bottom of the sea by the time he got there.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

"I had three weeks off after the US Open and you probably saw a little bit on Thursday I was fatting a few shots," said Hatton.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2023

Even when steep swingers hit it solid, they take deep divots—they're always on the verge of fatting it.

From Golf Digest ● Mar. 13, 2017

Amongst these ideas which the old-fashioned ones looked upon as fads, was that of feeding pigs of all ages and especially fatting pigs on a certain proportion of vegetable food.

From The Pig Breeding, Rearing, and Marketing by Sanders Spencer

I therefore give you the following list of the stock of eatables that I am fatting for my private tooth.

From Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by George Saintsbury

As to fatting turkeys, the best way is, never to let them be poor.

From Cottage Economy To Which Is Added The Poor Man's Friend by William Cobbett


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