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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

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

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026

He was a skinny teenager told to go to buy milkshakes to "fatten him up".

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2025

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

“We’ll have Jenny fatten up the British navy and make their ships sink to the bottom of the sea!” yelled a red-faced man.

From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson

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

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

Sometime in the eighties they invented pig balls, for pigs who were being fattened in pens.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

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

The Victorian glasshouses nurture fattening peaches, while in the main garden beyond, a tower of water bursts up into the sky—the highest powered fountain in England.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 11, 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

Every time the political world thinks his career has ended, he manages to rise again, rebuilding his audience and fattening his bank accounts.

From Salon ● Feb. 2, 2026

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

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone