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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
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
Despite periodic attempts to gin up an economic-growth agenda, Mr. Starmer hasn’t been able to settle on an approach that would raise living standards and stir optimism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
Rowan and Esme went to the game room and played gin rummy, mercifully undisturbed by talk of gleaning and quotas and the kissing of rings.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
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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
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While Mr. Rees is keen to dispel the myths ginned up by imperial writers, he doesn’t prevaricate when the evidence shows that their fears may not have been entirely unfounded.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
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
Spotify users who have been amused by these thrice-daily servings of word salad might be surprised — or, just as likely, not — to learn that the playlist names are ginned up by A.I.
From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 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
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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
The administration is ginning up more beef demand, too.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 19, 2026
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
The orchestra was just being factual in ginning up a little excitement at a climactic moment in the six-decade career of one of the most eminent figures in classical music.
From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2023
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
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I suspect that experience gave her a very strong civil libertarian instinct that manifests here as a deep skepticism towards state power to criminalize gun possession.
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026
Once dry, the highly flammable cylinders are sent to the front line, where gun crews stack up to six of them into artillery systems, such as howitzers, depending on the distance they want to fire.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
Now it investigates police departments with excessive delays in approving gun permits.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026
She spoke about how the case had been "considered by a grand jury in Texas" but "no criminal charges were brought. The gun had simply gone off".
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026
Booth asked eleven-year-old Richard Jr. to run and fetch his pistols and gun belt from his room upstairs.
From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson
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