gin
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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
The Queen thanked Curtis and told him "this is my husband's favourite" after he handed her a bottle of gin from Wales as another gift.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 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
We asked readers which U.S. technologies, including the cotton gin, the microchip and even the dishwasher, have mattered most.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 25, 2026
We dive into gin rummy as though no time had passed.
From "We Are Okay" by Nina LaCour
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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 mean, there’s no on,* there, and nothing happening. The world only b gan today.”
From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis
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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
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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
Here are some of the top suggestions for stretching dollars and ginning up extra income.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2024
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
He had built up the ginning enterprise himself and overseen it through this seasonal spasm of mad activity for thirty years; he no longer had the slightest interest or obligation.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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"Our hearts are with the terrified children and the families anxiously waiting to hear that their loved ones are safe," GIFFORDS, a gun safety organization, said on X.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
By Sunday afternoon, the rumor had acquired its supposed smoking gun.
From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2026
Israeli soldiers recovered his gun months later in Gaza.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
Mulligan argued that evidence of infidelity was not evidence of murder and questioned why Flynn was being accused of tampering with evidence because his gun could not be found.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
He stopped, his dark analytical eyes flickering from the gun in my hand to the doll that lay in the dust, then back again.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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