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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

Instead, the company said, the measure is aimed at tackling a perennial problem in California’s legal system: attorneys pushing car crash victims into expensive surgeries in order to fatten their fees.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 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

Hormones are usually used to fatten cattle in the later stages of production, a Defra spokesperson said, and therefore traces would be identifiable through checks.

From BBC ● May 9, 2025

And I was mindful to do a good job with the marketing for Mrs. Wigginbottom—and leave time to barter biscuits for more newspapers and fatten up that orange tomcat on the back porch.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

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

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

McClain bought calves at auction, fattened them up and got them used to antibiotics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 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

And so they fattened me up a little bit, put some fake grease on me, which made the director so unhappy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2023

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

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

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

‘They’re a blessing. Having no one to cook for, now, that’s a sadness. But a young man gaunt from the Elmuthaleth and in need of fattening? That’s a pleasure.”

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor