fatten
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Feeders are ranchers who own feedlots where they fatten cattle and sell them to meatpackers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 24, 2025
Wilson’s phalaropes feed and fatten up at Mono Lake before their migration to South America.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2025
The Seahawks need to fatten up before staring down this quartet of stiff challenges: 49ers, Cowboys, 49ers, Eagles.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 17, 2023
Liz Truss told the Institute for Government she tried to rear, fatten and slaughter a pig on market day in her rush to meet voters' need for change saying she had "limited time".
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2023
Dad fed them molasses to fatten them, and gave the chickens corn and sorghum until they laid vermilion eggs, rich with vitamins.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
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
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
The company is shifting cattle deliveries from feedlots where livestock are fattened to its other large processing facilities across the U.S., such as Grand Island, Neb., and Cactus, Texas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 16, 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
One fellow passenger remembered a story about demon sailors who had fattened up their Tang passengers.
From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep
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
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
Many facilities focus on just one step in the production process — producing new young, for instance, or fattening adults for slaughter — and then send the animals on.
From New York Times ● May 20, 2024
He throws up the first time he eats the stuff—too rich for his belly, I guess—but after that he manages to keep it down, and all the while he’s fattening out a little.
From "Shiloh" by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
