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Instead, the company said, the measure is aimed at tackling a perennial problem in California’s legal system: attorneys pushing car crash victims into expensive surgeries in order to fatten their fees.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 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

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

“In that new Chevy. But she’s expecting to feed you lunch before you go. It’s her last chance to fatten you up before you leave Mississippi” He grinned.

From "Mississippi Trial, 1955" by Chris Crowe

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

Chey’s ex-wife now wants an appeals court to grant her a higher proportion of Chey’s fortune, fattened by the global AI frenzy, using an updated asset valuation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 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

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

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

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

For example, it banned the export of live animals from Great Britain for slaughter and fattening and changed EU laws on gene editing crops.

From BBC ● Jan. 30, 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

Alternatively, hunters may have caught and ‘adopted’ a lamb, fattening it during the months of plenty and slaughtering it in the leaner season.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari