churning
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That’s the big idea churning under “Whalefall’s” surface.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026
It will be at least another year or two before car companies start churning out new models at their usual pace, analysts say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
Two powerful hurricanes and a strengthening tropical storm on Wednesday were churning through the Pacific Ocean where waters were being warmed by a historically strong El Nino climate episode.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
Viktoria Haidai surveys the mangled remains of the printing press, which should have been busy churning out textbooks ready for the new school year.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
I staggered inside and met a wall of yak—a great expanse of curly-haired chest and churning hooves, of flared red nostrils and spinning eyes.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
The intensity depends on many factors, including complex churnings in the Earth's core.
From Salon ● Feb. 9, 2023
She seems to satisfy, to an extreme and unabashed degree, our romantic belief that the pangs of creative production can be traced directly to private churnings of love and loss.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 1, 2015
It was an illustration of the many simultaneous churnings that animate India today.
From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2013
Evensong belies its title by ascending to multiphonic free jazz with hymnal piano churnings beneath.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 25, 2011
His mind was a grayness and there were churnings of pain in his stomach.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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Number the Stars
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"The Witches" by Roald Dahl, Chapters 1–5
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