fat
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Minimal weight gain is possible, but it’s water weight not fat, Ansari says, and “not guaranteed.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
I’m no saint, but have we all turned into Susie Greene from “Curb Your Enthusiasm”? “Get up off your fat ass” was the cleanest line I could find, and that was to her husband.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
Kessler thought Spengler a “fat priest with a fat chin and brutal mouth” and his theories “the most hackneyed, trivial stuff,” but Kessler sensed the ominous turn in Germany’s cultural politics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
The general idea is that going long stretches without eating depletes the body’s stored sugar, or glycogen, so it burns stored fat for energy.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
He did it with thick lines and thin lines, lines fat with goo and lines that were mere shadows.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
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His first beat was covering oils, fats and waxes for the weekly trade periodical Chemical Market Reporter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
Their findings indicate that naturally occurring dairy trans fats act differently in the body from industrial trans fats.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026
Researchers measured levels of dairy trans fats in participants' blood and compared them with later health outcomes.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026
The first came from ten controlled dietary trials in which participants consumed dairy foods containing naturally enhanced levels of trans fats and were compared with people consuming regular dairy products.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026
Now researchers think these hydrogenated trans fats in margarine are actually worse for our hearts than butter.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
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Campbell says they "played around" with how much the ball was blown up, adding: "In previous weeks it was actually a bit fatter, and then this week it definitely feels smaller."
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
I never became “unrecognizable,” and I spent more time than I’d like to admit looking at myself in the mirror and comparing what I saw to photos of the younger, fatter version of myself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
But weakening domestic sales are pushing manufacturers like Zhang to seek fatter margins abroad, where consumers have more purchasing power.
From Barron's ● Aug. 9, 2026
The strategists explain why markets went up so much and why the fatter tail — the rising probability of an extreme event — suggests they could fall in the near future.
From MarketWatch ● May 18, 2026
Then he mumbles, “Matter, flatter, fatter, hatter. Mad Hatter!”
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
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Though at least he wasn’t mindlessly competing with the lab next door for the fattest IPO.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
“It’s the early Christian that gets the fattest lion.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
The fattest part of the barrel is actually closer to the handle, with the idea of redistributing more mass to an area where some hitters make more frequent contact.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2025
“America has now become the fattest nation in the world. Congratulations,” a voice narrates.
From New York Times ● May 12, 2024
Yet her father, who ate nothing at all, was now the fattest man in the village.
From "The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa" by Alexander Mccall Smith
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Finally, with the infrastructure in place and the new money flowing, the Dodgers then opened their fatted wallet for the players that created the championship.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2024
Mistakes were made: Thomson fatted a pitch at the 13th and lost the hole, and Watson gave it right back after pushing his drive badly at the 14th.
From Golf Digest ● Mar. 20, 2019
“The Ranch” is a prodigal-son story, complete with fatted calves.
From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2016
“If you have a fatted goose, it’s not going to walk well,” he says.
From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2015
Grace’s hands are fists, her fatted chin is trembling, her eyes are pink and watery, like a laboratory rabbit’s.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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"I had three weeks off after the US Open and you probably saw a little bit on Thursday I was fatting a few shots," said Hatton.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2023
Even when steep swingers hit it solid, they take deep divots—they're always on the verge of fatting it.
From Golf Digest ● Mar. 13, 2017
Nothing is paid for a dry cow, and therefore tithe in kind must be paid for all fatting cattle.
From A Cotswold Village by J. Arthur Gibbs
It is then ready for use, to be carried to the pigs in the stalls alongside the fatting beasts.
From The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock by Sir Charles Alexander Cameron
I found no farmers but in these counties that understood anything of fatting cattle with them; feeding lean sheep being the only use they put them to.'
From A Short History of English Agriculture by W. H. R. (William Henry Ricketts) Curtler
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