fatten
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The candidates are bears in Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska, who are currently busy devouring as many calories as possible to fatten up for winter hibernation.
From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026
And that may not change soon as high stock prices continue to fatten travel budgets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
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
Hormones are usually used to fatten cattle in the later stages of production, a Defra spokesperson said, and therefore traces would be identifiable through checks.
From BBC ● May 9, 2025
She usually tells me how she’s going to fatten me up.
From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée
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
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
A rare wild rhinoceros on the brink of extinction is probably more satisfied than a calf who spends its short life inside a tiny box, fattened to produce juicy steaks.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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
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
"The movement of sheep and goats for breeding, fattening and slaughter is banned throughout Greece," the agriculture ministry said.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2024
“Am I not?” cries Obsle, fattening out like a great hob-fish.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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