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Recent Examples of force-feedTake, for example, the first victim portrays gluttony: a man with obesity is force-fed literally to death via hemorrhage.—Derek Scancarelli, EW.com, 27 June 2025 Public pressure mounted, including from the United Nations, and a court order required authorities to stop force-feeding the group.—Jimmy Jenkins, USA Today, 27 June 2025 The federal government is seeking permission to force-feed an Iranian asylum-seeker on hunger strike while detained at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Arizona.—Matthew Robinson, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 June 2025 And do those keys happen to unlock a Time Laser or a psychotic artificial intelligence robot force-feeding contestants pizza and ice cream?—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 16 June 2025 When their characters begin fighting, Shauna ultimately bites Melissa’s arm before force-feeding her a piece of it.—Jenelle Riley, Variety, 15 May 2025 Instead, Misty leads a crew to force-feed him through a tube.—Erin Qualey, Vulture, 14 Mar. 2025 Attempts to force-feed Jokic resulted in bad-pass turnovers.—Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 25 Dec. 2024 Price of a delicacy: Physicists are developing a new way of producing foie gras that doesn’t require force-feeding the birds.—Natasha Frost, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025
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.
Pliny the Elder described how snails were raised in ponds and given wine to fatten them up.
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Garritt C. Van Dyk,
Smithsonian Magazine,
29 May 2025
Record high after record high on Wall Street Across the Biden era, US stocks posted strong gains, fattening retirement accounts and providing hefty returns for investors.
The farm—which is, in fact, an enormous warehouse—is filled with lettuce seedlings growing under banks of lights in a mist of chemicals.
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Elizabeth Kolbert,
New Yorker,
23 June 2025
Bleacher Report's Tim Kelly recently suggested the Yankees could swing a trade for Arizona Diamondbacks third baseman Eugenio Suarez to fill the massive hole at third base in the Bronx.
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