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gin

[jin] / dʒɪn /




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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

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

I thought of the doddering old war veterans who sat along the gallery in front of the cotton gin and spat their tobacco and bored everybody with the same stories they’d been telling for decades.

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

Ron was now staring at Lockhart with an expression of disbelief on his face; Seamus Linni- gan and Dean Thomas, who were sitting in front, were shaking with silent laughter.

From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling

Residents filled town-hall meetings, posted signs on their properties, held fundraisers and ginned up social-media campaigns to oppose the seizure.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 2, 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

In New York, Haggis claimed the rape allegation he faces was ginned up by the church to destroy his reputation at the height of the #MeToo movement.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 15, 2022

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

Here are some of the top suggestions for stretching dollars and ginning up extra income.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 13, 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

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

The man was crouched behind a 5-foot-tall gun safe Roebuck had purchased a few weeks earlier.

From Slate Sep. 17, 2026

"You start with a pistol, and then you get a shotgun, then you get a machine gun," Cregger explained.

From Barron's Sep. 16, 2026

Patterned after gun buyback programs organized by police departments, prosecutors in Orange County are offering gift cards for people to surrender e-bikes and e-motorcycles with “no questions” asked.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 15, 2026

Then came what appeared to be the evidentiary smoking gun: a lettuce sample that tested positive for Cyclospora.

From Salon Sep. 13, 2026

The man wore a gun in a leather holster and a beribboned uniform.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom




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