fat
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The cheese clings to the warm crackers, the pepper blooms in the fat and the whole thing eats like the bar snack version of cacio e pepe.
From Salon ● Jul. 14, 2026
Scientists from the University of California San Diego and collaborating institutions examined data from an earlier clinical trial involving 108 adults with HIV-associated lipohypertrophy, a condition that causes excess fat to accumulate around the abdomen.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
Danny Skinner, who farms at Duncanstone near Insch, Aberdeenshire, has around 450 sows and sells about 270 "fat pigs" every week.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
She stood 5-foot-6 and weighed 180 pounds, of which 36% was body fat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
As soon as it fit, the stone turned into a wooden door with fat iron hinges and a door handle.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
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Researchers observed greater breakdown of fats, carbohydrates, and amino acids.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 3, 2026
When energy production becomes less efficient, cells compensate by consuming larger amounts of fuel, including fats, carbohydrates, and proteins.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 3, 2026
You can also add granola with oats and nuts that contribute healthy fats that slow glucose absorption.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 21, 2026
They contain nitrates, high levels of sodium and saturated fats, and aromatic hydrocarbons that increase the risk of cancer, hypertension, and heart disease.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 21, 2026
It’s enough to tell you that we’ve divided many things like meat and fats and oils and are frying, our own potatoes.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
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“We’re getting fatter and dumber, and our mental health is deteriorating,” the author writes, which is what “a half century-plus of mass-affluence consumerism has brought us.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026
Boosting isn’t a solution, but it is an equalizer, reminding upper management that a different title and fatter salary don’t exempt them from compassion, inside or outside the store.
From Salon ● May 22, 2026
With fatter profit margins from AI, earnings can grow 14% annually through 2027.
From Barron's ● Mar. 10, 2026
SNPs have even fatter profit margins than traditional Medicare Advantage plans.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 6, 2026
With this class, though, she’s probably going to have a fatter stack of referrals.
From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers
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This is partly why she pursued the research: She wanted to figure out what characterizes the few with the fattest paychecks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 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
And second, Sgr A* isn't even the fattest hole we've seen.
From Salon ● Mar. 28, 2024
I plopped myself down in my polka-dotted sunsuit and picked off the fattest ants to eat.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
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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
The film also captures a tradition that would soon disappear from New Orleans Mardi Gras — the “boeuf gras,” or fatted ox, paraded around the city.
From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2022
At the Honda Classic one year, I fatted my second shot on the par-4 second hole into a muddy area left of the green.
From Golf Digest ● Oct. 19, 2016
Overfull, teaming, something fatted and overfed, like livestock.”
From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2015
I could tell he had not considered the possibility that all the fatted ships he had traveled so far to plunder might be at the bottom of the sea by the time he got there.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
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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
Some corn and some raw Swedish turnips, or carrots, or white cabbages, or lettuces, make the best fatting.
From Cottage Economy To Which Is Added The Poor Man's Friend by Cobbett, William
Again, so many persons are apt to give to the fatting pig a greater quantity of food than it requires or can eat with comfort to itself at one meal.
From The Pig Breeding, Rearing, and Marketing by Spencer, Sanders
He is nearly always killing pigs; sometimes beating the oak for them; with Spenser, fatting them.
From The Stones of Venice, Volume II (of 3), by Ruskin, John
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