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October is traditionally a time when many Scottish farmers sell "store" cattle or lambs to other farmers who will fatten them up further.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

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

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026

Don’t stress about your pile of fall reading; fatten it up, baby, and pick up one of this month’s new releases.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 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

Now he caught it and put it in a pen made of logs, to fatten.

From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder

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

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 arrived at the start of December at Smithfield Common in the City of London, where they were rested and fattened up for Christmas.

From BBC ● Dec. 24, 2025

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

“You’ve fattened up a bit, and your skin has some color now. Welcome to my home, Celaena Sardothien.”

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas

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

That isn’t enough to sway the gladiatorial majority, which is mostly made up of men grinning at the fattening piggy bank suspended above them.

From Salon ● Jun. 27, 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

There were plates of scones, cookies, and muffins, fresh butter and jam—all of which, Annabeth figured, were incredibly fattening; unless, of course, you were the immortal goddess of love.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan