crank

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

Exercise makes your cells crank out more energy, helps your heart pump more blood, and your lungs bring in more air.

From Barron's ● Jun. 27, 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

Transmission's manual, so you could probably crank it up, get her going pretty speedy.

From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez

Mr. Stein says that serious baseball fans in the 1860s were called cranks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026

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

He sings the chorus, then cranks up the tempo a notch and suddenly starts belting the Beatles’ “Get Back,” before smoothly transitioning once more into his own song.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2026

The water around me whirls and churns like cranks in a pulley system.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

But eventually the four-time major singles winner found her rhythm and, after striking decisively at 6-5 to take the first set, she cranked up the power.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

In the late 1990s, Greenspan’s Fed kept its foot off the brakes as economic growth cranked up to an annual clip of more than 4% for several years.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2026

That cranked up the stress for fans, who didn’t know if the tickets they saw online would soon vanish, or if the future price would rise or drop.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 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

Turner looked at them through his window; he could almost see them puffing: In the dark, the cranked horn of a doryman sounded, and then another, higher pitched.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt

At 88, Scott is still cranking out movies with little apparent interest in slowing down.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

Now, the chain known for its deals and edgy marketing is cranking up its offerings again in a bid to quickly recover.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

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

He was trying to talk to Link by cranking Link’s head around and shouting into his ear.

From "Feed" by M.T. Anderson