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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
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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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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
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
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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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