fatten
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It’s also possible that retailers, figuring that consumers would expect to pay more for tariffed washing machines and would assume the same effect held for dryers, charged more for the latter to fatten their profits.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2026
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
He was a skinny teenager told to go to buy milkshakes to "fatten him up".
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 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
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
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
Energesman, meanwhile, has plans to turn the fattened fly larvae into a new income stream.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2025
They fattened them on the plateau during the summer, and brought them down to the buyers in late fall.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
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
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
"The movement of sheep and goats for breeding, fattening and slaughter is banned throughout Greece," the agriculture ministry said.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2024
“I didn’t think so, but why else were they fattening me up?”
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
