fat
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"There's just no more fat to trim," says the mother-of-two.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026
Over the past few years of increasing costs, Dawn says her family – which includes two children aged six and eight – have been "trimming the fat accordingly".
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026
Additional research published later that year has provided further evidence of its importance in regulating body fat and metabolism.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026
In addition to resisting excess fat accumulation, they experienced favorable changes in their overall body composition.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026
Two of Bree and Hanna's children had once told him that Sheba could turn you into a fat slug if she chose.
From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda
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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
They also performed experiments that blocked glucagon or GLP-1 signaling, surgically interrupted the vagus nerves below the diaphragm on both sides, and examined whether different dietary fats produced similar results.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026
The first-of-its-kind research, published in the journal Nutrition Research, could also help consumers better understand the distinction between different types of trans fats and provide greater clarity around labeling policies that may contribute to confusion.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026
Their findings indicate that naturally occurring dairy trans fats act differently in the body from industrial trans fats.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026
“Like your fats and oils boss help you?”
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
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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
Investors zeroed in on United’s potentially fatter jet-fuel bill — the airline said it expects nearly $6 billion in additional fuel expenses for the year, based on crude prices as of Tuesday.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
Shares climbed 8.4% in morning trading after the Frankfurt-listed academic publisher said it expects further sales growth and a fatter profit margin this year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026
You will see how it changes its skin as it eats more and gets fatter.
From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall
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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
“With a worm, of course. Seagulls love worms, didn’t you know that? And luckily for us, we have here the biggest, fattest, pinkest, juiciest Earthworm in the world.”
From "James and the Giant Peach" by Roald Dahl
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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 Ranch” is a prodigal-son story, complete with fatted calves.
From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2016
“If you have a fatted goose, it’s not going to walk well,” he says.
From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2015
Feasting on the fatted calf of divine grace, every day was thanksgiving.
From Time ● Feb. 13, 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
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"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
Further it is just as much a mistake for fatting pigs as for human beings to be continually eating, or at irregular intervals, small quantities of food.
From The Pig Breeding, Rearing, and Marketing by Sanders Spencer
No; but how should I, with this grief still at my heart, take to the milking of your cows, the fatting of your calves, the making of your butter, and the managing of your poultry?
From Becket and other plays by Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson
In this predicament we wintered about 1,000 half-bred lambs, more than 400 ewes, and some fatting sheep.
From The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock by Sir Charles Alexander Cameron
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