fatten
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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
Financial stocks continued a strong run as investors anticipate a slate of deals that could fatten Wall Street banks’ revenue.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
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
Adults always want to fatten Alice, even mean adults.
From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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
Wood showing where bark dropped off the birches was deeply marked all over with the galleries, or tunnels, chewed by larvae getting bigger and bigger, as the grub fattens on the trees’ vital nutrients.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 6, 2016
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
McClain bought calves at auction, fattened them up and got them used to antibiotics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 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
Now, fattened up on mice and wearing a thicker coat of fur, he was content to play outdoors most days.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
Wheat grains shrivelled instead of fattening, and the yield plummeted.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
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
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
"All right. Come back later, Kabir. You look like you could use some fattening up."
From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman
