fatten
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They are sold to feedlots that fatten them up before being shipped to slaughterhouses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026
Wilson’s phalaropes feed and fatten up at Mono Lake before their migration to South America.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2025
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
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
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
At around six-months-old they are bought by companies that run feedlots – large yards where the animals are fattened on corn and other grains for the final three to six months of their lives.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
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
The company is shifting cattle deliveries from feedlots where livestock are fattened to its other large processing facilities across the U.S., such as Grand Island, Neb., and Cactus, Texas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 16, 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
Now, fattened up on mice and wearing a thicker coat of fur, he was content to play outdoors most days.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
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
Monday’s game offered yet another example of how the team that supposedly is ruining baseball is fattening the wallets of the league’s other 29 teams.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2026
"I am thinking of setting up a new unit with my son for fattening calves," he says.
From BBC ● Nov. 30, 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
“I didn’t think so, but why else were they fattening me up?”
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
