fatten
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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
He was a skinny teenager told to go to buy milkshakes to "fatten him up".
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2025
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 Katmai brown bears are famous for standing at Brooks Falls, catching sockeye salmon in their mouths to fatten up for the winter.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 29, 2023
The corporation’s directors were empowered to fatten its portfolio with other promising inventions and use them the same way.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
It also fattens the wallet for those who help it happen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 3, 2026
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
Rosario is the biggest soy-crushing hub in the Americas, where 22 plants process 157,500 tonnes of soybeans per day into soyoil and feed that fattens livestock in markets from the United Kingdom to Indonesia.
From Reuters ● 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 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
Put it all together, and the Dodgers have taken one of the best rosters in baseball and fattened it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 24, 2025
One fellow passenger remembered a story about demon sailors who had fattened up their Tang passengers.
From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep
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
"I am thinking of setting up a new unit with my son for fattening calves," he says.
From BBC ● Nov. 30, 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
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
“Am I not?” cries Obsle, fattening out like a great hob-fish.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
