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Hundreds of thousands of the birds—roughly 80 percent of the total population—spend several weeks resting and fattening up near the Platte River in February, March and April.
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Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Mar. 2025
After using the summer to feed and fatten up in Alaska, the whales migrate to Mexico in the winter to breed and give birth.
—Adrian Rodriguez, Mercury News, 4 Apr. 2025
Her mother’s pullets were raised clean on a green yard, on a menu of crushed corn and wayward bugs, not manufactured in the crowd and reek of a modern-day factory farm, fattened on fish meal.
—Rick Bragg, Southern Living, 3 Apr. 2025
There is little sympathy in the Republican coalition right now for the NGOs that have fattened themselves at the federal trough.
—Jay Cost, The Washington Examiner, 28 Mar. 2025
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Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Mar. 2025
After using the summer to feed and fatten up in Alaska, the whales migrate to Mexico in the winter to breed and give birth.
—Adrian Rodriguez, Mercury News, 4 Apr. 2025
Her mother’s pullets were raised clean on a green yard, on a menu of crushed corn and wayward bugs, not manufactured in the crowd and reek of a modern-day factory farm, fattened on fish meal.
—Rick Bragg, Southern Living, 3 Apr. 2025
There is little sympathy in the Republican coalition right now for the NGOs that have fattened themselves at the federal trough.
—Jay Cost, The Washington Examiner, 28 Mar. 2025
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The agency, whose fewer than 1,900 federal employees oversee the more than 60,000 contractors who build and maintain the U.S. nuclear arsenal, has struggled to fill crucial safety roles.—
Davis Winkie,
USA Today,
19 May 2025
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And the internet is filled with travel advisors and tour agencies that sell these types of hidden adventures.—
Ramsey Qubein,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2025
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The case rocked Britain, seeming to expose a remorseless serial killer who, prosecutors said, used a bizarre range of techniques to kill her tiny, often very premature, victims: Injecting them with air, overfeeding them with milk or contaminating their feeds with insulin.—
Megan Specia,
New York Times,
21 Mar. 2025
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Napping after overfeeding on food is a dilemma many of us will be fortunate to face on Christmas Day.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
18 Dec. 2024
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But, if those guys [the oligarchs] do start messing everything up, then there is really something for normal people to worry about.—
Andrew Marantz,
New Yorker,
4 May 2025
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So, avoid messing things up with these simple tips for cooking delicious, juicy cheeseburgers on a propane grill.—
Joe Difazio,
USA Today,
26 Apr. 2025
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Sheila stares downward, as though battening her emotional hatches.—
Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein,
New York Times,
13 June 2023
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In summary, short-term volatility will persist while consumers batten down the hatches, but as always the future of retail is bright for those who are willing to evolve.—
Natalie Berg,
Forbes,
27 Jan. 2023
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“Fatten.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fatten. Accessed 23 May. 2025.
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