bulk out
To make something bigger or thicker by adding more stuff to it.
Meanings
To make food go further or be more filling by adding extra, often cheaper, ingredients.
"She bulked out the stew with lentils and extra vegetables to feed more people."
To make a piece of writing, speech, or presentation longer by adding extra, sometimes unnecessary, material.
"He bulked out his essay with long quotations to reach the minimum word count."
Used in cooking (adding cheaper ingredients to a dish), writing (adding content to a text to meet a word count), and physical descriptions. Slightly negative connotation in the writing sense, implying the added material is not genuinely valuable.
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