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as in best
individuals carefully selected as being the best of a class
makers of fine wine will pay very high prices for grapes that are the fat of the harvest
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as in surplus
the state or an instance of going beyond what is usual, proper, or needed
claimed that there was absolutely no fat in the military's budget
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as in obesity
the condition of having an excess of body fat
there's a definite predisposition for fat on his wife's side of the family
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as in plump
having an excess of body fat
the popular image of Santa Claus as a fat man in a red suit
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as in filled
containing or seeming to contain the greatest quantity or number possible
the lake is so fat with trout that you probably could catch fish with a bare hook
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as in wide
having a greater than usual measure across
a set of fat encyclopedia volumes took up the whole shelf
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as in thick
having or being of relatively great depth or extent from one surface to its opposite
the splendid sight of a fat, juicy steak cooked to perfection
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as in fertile
producing abundantly
the fat soil in the river's delta
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as in lucrative
yielding a profit
the highly sought-after baseball player signed a fat contract that set a record for the major leagues
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as in wealthy
having goods, property, or money in abundance
while others suffered and sacrificed, the war profiteers grew fat
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Recent Examples of fat
Rowan Briggs, Mercury News, 3 Apr. 2025
Prices are only expected to rise at a time when many consumers have little fat left to cut.
—Star Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 2 Apr. 2025
Kazuma Hashimoto, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2025
Suet Suet is defined as rendered beef fat, and suet cakes are a mixture of suet, seeds, fruit, and other bird-friendly mix-in.
—Abby Fribush, Southern Living, 27 Mar. 2025
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Noun
Obesity is more than just excess fat – it’s classified as a chronic disease that requires medical management.
—Rowan Briggs, Mercury News, 3 Apr. 2025
Prices are only expected to rise at a time when many consumers have little fat left to cut.
—Star Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 2 Apr. 2025
Adjective
Enemies are bloated, fat, and covered in armor, or are made of sinew and bone, standing two heads taller than the already hulking Slayer, while some perch on the back of what can only be described as flesh-dogs mounted by generic looking demons adorned in cruel looking plate.
—Kazuma Hashimoto, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2025
Suet Suet is defined as rendered beef fat, and suet cakes are a mixture of suet, seeds, fruit, and other bird-friendly mix-in.
—Abby Fribush, Southern Living, 27 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fat
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Delaney, who has been public about his own experience with death in losing his toddler-aged son to a brain tumor, and Slate, a comedian with the soul of a poet, are each at their bests here.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
4 Apr. 2025
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Her personal bests are 12.24 and 11.09, respectively.—
Katelyn Hutchison,
Forbes.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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That, and the surplus of mentors who played for Dad before him.—
Sam Cohn,
Baltimore Sun,
24 Mar. 2025
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During the Legislature’s budget session in 2023, Minnesota was working with an $18 billion surplus and approved a budget of $72 billion, a jump from the previous $52 billion budget.—
Mary Murphy,
Twin Cities,
22 Mar. 2025
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Insufficient sleep puts you at an elevated risk for a number of health conditions, including depression, anxiety, heart disease and obesity.—
Caroline C. Boyle,
USA Today,
28 Mar. 2025
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Being in debt is associated with other ailments, including back pain and obesity.—
Jeffrey Anvari-Clark,
The Conversation,
27 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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In other words, ceramides help to keep your skin tone plump and even.—
Taylor Lane,
Flow Space,
4 Apr. 2025
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This gooey essence hydrates, soothes, and leaves skin looking plump without feeling greasy.—
Simon Hill,
Wired News,
31 Mar. 2025
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Founded by her grandfather 75 years ago, Klem's sells a wide range of products including hardware, pet food and clothes.—
Alina Selyukh,
NPR,
7 Apr. 2025
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This improved their wide attacks, particularly because Williams could finally get forward on the overlap to support Hudson-Odoi, with the duo providing plenty of dangerous crosses and Forest finally getting three or four team-mates in the penalty area.—
Liam Tharme,
New York Times,
7 Apr. 2025
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This beautiful Easter garland, on sale for $79.99 at Wayfair, is opulent and thick with twigs and pastel eggs that run throughout.—
Nora Colomer,
FOXNews.com,
10 Apr. 2025
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Twangy bass lines thick enough to saw down a redwood tree are shredded with shivers of electric guitar to create a blues sound that cuts a hole straight through the decades.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
10 Apr. 2025
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Its possible role in the emergence of the Ediacaran fauna has long been debated, with some researchers suggesting that the melting ice released nutrients into the sea, providing a fertile ground for complex life to evolve.—
David Bressan,
Forbes.com,
6 Apr. 2025
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Communities with vaccination rates below the 95% threshold necessary to maintain herd immunity become fertile ground for measles outbreaks.—
Dr. Josh Green,
CNN Money,
5 Apr. 2025
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The lucrative fishing rights are set to run out in June 2026.—
Colette Davidson,
Christian Science Monitor,
9 Apr. 2025
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This is the nation’s agro-industrial heartland, and, thanks to irrigation canals, almost every inch of the floodplain is blanketed in lucrative export crops, such as sugarcane, asparagus and blueberries.—
Ari Caramanica,
The Conversation,
8 Apr. 2025
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“Fat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fat. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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