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In 1915, a German hand-decorated a gin bottle with a skull-faced, spike-helmeted soldier wishing its owner good luck.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 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

But many recall how the place kept alive a fragment of Delhi's elite past through small rituals: liveried waiters at dusk, gin and lime on shaded verandas, retired generals and diplomats lingering under neem trees.

From BBC ● May 25, 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

Sometimes my father would seek advice from Granddaddy about some aspect or other of the farm or the cotton gin.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

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

Traffic has stalled and customers didn’t respond to promotions it ginned up in the spring.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026

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

It ginned up a disciplinary case against a driver who was a leading union activist and eventually fired her.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 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

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

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

“The gun part of it’s gonna be tough,” Derek says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 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

Police found the man, saw that he was holding what looked like a gun, got out of their car and ordered him to stop, according to the release.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

She didn’t have a gun or a knife, just her old pointer dog by her side.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney