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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

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

Those inventions ranged from the cotton gin to bluejeans, bypass surgery to the dishwasher, and, yes, even Post-it Notes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

Camp got him a job at the tannery, working for Wildcat Lindsey, but soon lost it, and then worked a while at the gin.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

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 mean, there’s no on,* there, and nothing happening. The world only b gan today.”

From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis

Some of the online pushback was ginned up by bots.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

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

From New York Times ● Jan. 21, 2024

Ausserer, during his closing argument, insinuated Ellis’ family lawyer ginned up evidence against the officers by collecting cellphone videos and interviews from eyewitnesses who implicated the officers.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 12, 2023

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

Mr. Jacobsen notes that some of those ginning up hysteria about the risks associated with sunlight stand to profit from it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026

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

“If you want to be able to keep ginning up Black Detroiters to vote, having some representation in the Congress is important.”

From Seattle Times ● May 21, 2024

Musk started ginning up transparently bogus excuses to place the deal “on hold,” even though the merger agreement gave him no such option.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2022

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

The FDE has recently gone from hired gun to the hottest hire in tech.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

Murphy, who has represented Connecticut in the Senate since 2013, has emerged as a prominent Democratic voice on gun control and immigration.

From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2026

Collective flow has since become another important "smoking gun" signature of quark-gluon plasma.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

On Monday, Menapace launched a GoFundMe campaign with a goal of raising $5,000 to help the crew replace its stolen equipment, including a nail gun and eight batteries.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

There’s not a gun or a uniform to be seen.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron


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