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
The locations were changed but the settings were alike—a strip of wasteland bordered by rows of rotted shacks, and somewhere near a mill, a cotton gin, or a bottling plant.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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
McCartney, 15, ginned up the courage to approach Lennon after his set; their bond was forged over a mutual passion for Little Richard and Elvis Presley’s “Heartbreak Hotel.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 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
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
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
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
Yet these survivors are so hard-wired to be fearful of their neighbors that Hig and Cima’s rusty, tentative flirtation takes place under the gaze of her daddy’s gun, a heck of a chaperone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
“While Bessent sought to calm the bond market, he may instead have fired the starting gun for the next leg of the ‘hard money’ trade,” Weibel said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 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
He held the cane up like a gun, pressed an unseen button, and a feathered dart shot out of it and stuck to the wall.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
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