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gin

[jin] / dʒɪn /




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Eastside Girls, meanwhile, is a tender depiction of Muna's neighbourhood, lovingly lampooning the staples of LA hipster culture – astrology, polyamory, roommate dramas and "negronis with the nice gin".

From BBC Jul. 24, 2026

Elderflower liqueur is also the star in my spritz riffing on the Greyhound cocktail, which combines gin or vodka with grapefruit juice and club soda.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

But the silence has catalyzed non-Swiftie onlookers to gin up something decisively, inarguably odious to place at the singer’s feet.

From Salon Jul. 9, 2026

“It’s too late now to gin up something to harm a competitor,” Bill Savitt, a lawyer for OpenAI, had argued in his opening statement.

From MarketWatch May 18, 2026

Hilly shuffles and deals out a hand of gin rummy.

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett

Along the way, I acquired some new words in Korean, like bangsaneung for radiation and gan for liver.

From Slate Mar. 6, 2023

Datganiad o gefnogaeth gan yr Urdd i ffoaduriaid Wcráin.

From BBC Mar. 21, 2022

Then there’s the city’s signature dish, hot dry noodles, or re gan mian.

From Seattle Times Feb. 6, 2020

Then the cousin laughed and they gan bei-ed.

From The New Yorker Nov. 11, 2019

I read him most of chapter 1, up to the part where the young warrior Sohrab comes to his mother, Tahmineh, the princess of Samen- gan, and demands to know the identity of his father.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini

Some of the online pushback was ginned up by bots.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 11, 2026

Now that we’re in the sort of postnominations phase of the awards season, it’s become a time for controversies, whether they’re ginned up by competing movies or not is in the eye of the beholder.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 6, 2025

In 2023, she ginned half the cotton she did the year before.

From New York Times Jan. 21, 2024

No drop of human drama hasn’t been ginned.

From Salon Nov. 28, 2023

White suspected that Hale had ginned up the document while trying to obtain the insurance policy, and altered it after realizing that he had blundered on the date.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

It refers to ginning up the gene pool through tools like gene editing and A.I. enhancement, the argument being that manipulating genes can make us better, faster, smarter.

From Slate Mar. 19, 2026

They complained Bovino’s tactics were unnecessarily aggressive, ginning up opposition that put agents at higher risk.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 29, 2026

For now, however, even the almighty Wade isn’t capable of ginning up some bogus charge by which to keep the San-Ti cult leader Ye Wenjie under lock and key.

From New York Times Mar. 23, 2024

Meanwhile, Horowitz and Inciardi started ginning up alternate stories of how Sanders got hold of the manuscripts, Manhattan prosecutors say.

From Seattle Times Feb. 26, 2024

Just as well, as the campaign to bring me up to domestic scratch was, without my knowledge or cooperation, ginning up in earnest.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

In the wake of the 2011 bomb and gun attacks on Oslo and the island of Utøya, Harald appealed to Norwegians to support each other and not "let fear take over".

From BBC Aug. 28, 2026

The program, said the office in a statement, is patterned after police departments’ gun buyback programs.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 27, 2026

Moss said he has been a “leader on some of these consequential fights in Michigan, from gun safety to voting rights—lent me a lot of credibility as somebody who took on progressive issues.”

From Slate Aug. 20, 2026

That was "the market firing a flare gun over China's next speculative frontier", said Stephen Innes, global strategist at Quintex Intel.

From Barron's Aug. 19, 2026

“All right,” I said as I set my gun down and leaned it against a porch post.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls




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