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
Feeders are ranchers who own feedlots where they fatten cattle and sell them to meatpackers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 24, 2025
He was a skinny teenager told to go to buy milkshakes to "fatten him up".
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2025
Wilson’s phalaropes feed and fatten up at Mono Lake before their migration to South America.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2025
If you fatten up the subject by stuffing some words at the end, as in the diagram below, so that bridge no longer comes right before the verb, then agreement—defined over the tree—is unaffected.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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
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
McClain bought calves at auction, fattened them up and got them used to antibiotics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 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
And so they fattened me up a little bit, put some fake grease on me, which made the director so unhappy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2023
From the rear—particularly where his vertebrae were visible—he might almost have passed for one of those needy metropolitan children who are sent out every summer to endowed camps to be fattened and sunned.
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
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
"All right. Come back later, Kabir. You look like you could use some fattening up."
From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman
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