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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

Mountain goats deal with heavy snow, and have a short window of time to fatten up before the thick of winter.

From Seattle Times ● May 22, 2024

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

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

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

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 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

And so they fattened me up a little bit, put some fake grease on me, which made the director so unhappy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2023

Overall, the banking system remains flush with cash, reflecting the unprecedented surge in deposits during the pandemic, as savings rates increased and government assistance programmes fattened people's accounts.

From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2023

The beard fattened up his already plump face.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

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

"The movement of sheep and goats for breeding, fattening and slaughter is banned throughout Greece," the agriculture ministry said.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2024

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