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Recent Examples of fattenHundreds 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.—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 See All Example Sentences for fatten
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.
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Davis Winkie,
USA Today,
19 May 2025
And the internet is filled with travel advisors and tour agencies that sell these types of hidden adventures.
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.
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Megan Specia,
New York Times,
21 Mar. 2025
Napping after overfeeding on food is a dilemma many of us will be fortunate to face on Christmas Day.
Sheila stares downward, as though battening her emotional hatches.
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Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein,
New York Times,
13 June 2023
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.
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