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I’ve liked her in everything but her anachronistic appeal is especially good in movies like “Gail Daughtry” that crank reality up a notch so everything moves fast and silly.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

So crank up the Victrola, press play on Spotify and nestle into your headphones.

From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2026

Subtitled “An Almost History of America” and arriving on the eve of the nation’s semiquincentennial, this seven-episode sketch comedy comes from Larry David, television’s great luckless crank, and Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground Productions.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026

“These crews don’t have the time to delicately prune each tree. I finally get it, after being a crank to some of them over the years.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026

That had happened many times before, however, and I knew how to start it with the crank.

From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien

The partition that once sealed out the cranks and mediocrities has been permanently sundered.

From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2026

Harris-Aguirre helps moderate a ham-radio Facebook group and says the word “friendly” is in the group name so cranks stay away.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 25, 2026

This audit of a breakdown smashes both together and cranks the tension up to eleven.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2025

Your town has meetings you can attend in person, where local cranks will help explain the agenda to you.

From Salon ● Dec. 3, 2025

He brings the truck to a squeaky halt and cranks down the window.

From "Al Capone Does My Shirts" by Gennifer Choldenko

Carriers have cranked up fares eight times since the start of the war, according to Deutsche Bank analysts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

As Archer cranked up the pace, Phillips spent plenty of time on the floor, ducking and diving.

From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026

Now they are working on a backlog, while players and their agents have no doubt tried to exploit the time pressure that has been cranked up.

From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2026

The next big ad innovation came from a man who cranked out ideas by the dozen: Ben Franklin.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026

So instead, Candice jammed her earbuds in her ears, cranked up one of her dad’s playlists, and opened up her Mental Twister app.

From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson

Beijing introduced new rules this month cracking down on overseas investments, citing national security concerns and cranking up curbs on buying US shares that were imposed on Chinese investors in May.

From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026

This gives the heart a bigger job of pumping it around the body and it copes by dialling up the blood pressure - a bit like cranking the tap on a garden hose pipe.

From BBC ● May 15, 2026

Iger determined that Disney was cranking out too many TV shows and made-for-streaming movies, many of which didn’t live up to the company’s high standards of quality and diluted its blockbuster franchises.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2026

Now, it is coming for the Wall Street research teams cranking out daily stock reports.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 7, 2026

It was a rumbling, cranking noise that shook the Shack from top to bottom.

From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner