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[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

Technology, geopolitics, and economics have aligned to gin up excitement on Wall Street about the potential swirling above the clouds.

From Barron's Apr. 13, 2026

The cotton gin meant bigger cotton yields and the iron tools to harvest it, iron horseshoes for the horses tugging the wagons with iron rims and parts that took it to market.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

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

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

Spotify users who have been amused by these thrice-daily servings of word salad might be surprised — or, just as likely, not — to learn that the playlist names are ginned up by A.I.

From New York Times Jan. 24, 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

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

“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

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

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

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

From The Wall Street Journal 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

WASHINGTON—Attorney General Todd Blanche is launching a new process that allows individuals who lost their gun rights because of felony convictions to apply to have them reinstated.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 17, 2026

Immovable, except for his gaze and his fingers stroking his gun, the man didn’t care that he was blocking the saloon’s doorway.

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes




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