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Recent Examples of churnedSetting a trap with a phone call Leigh’s head spun, and her stomach churned.—Charlotte Observer, 2 Oct. 2025 Everybody went to see them, so studios churned more and more out every year until the market was saturated.—Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 23 Sep. 2025 The frigid water of the bay churned 220 feet below him.—Johnny Dodd, People.com, 24 Aug. 2025 As Hurricane Erin churned off the North Carolina coast this week, its powerful waves destroyed most of the remaining sea turtle nests on Emerald Isle, dealing a blow to what had been shaping up as a successful nesting season.—ABC News, 21 Aug. 2025 Auntie Kay’s question had churned up a whole country of pain inside the old woman.—Literary Hub, 21 Aug. 2025 The news came as Hurricane Erin churned in the Atlantic, with warnings going out along the East Coast.—Elizabeth Crisp, The Hill, 19 Aug. 2025 While many of the male students supported the women in their classes on an individual basis, tensions between them churned more generally.—Anne Halsey, JSTOR Daily, 6 Aug. 2025 So far, the region has churned up two tropical storms, two potential tropical disturbances, and it's now being watched closely for the development of yet another system.—Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 5 Aug. 2025
For years, rumors have swirled about the bankruptcy filings including the names of additional abusive clergy members, but that claim has never been substantiated.
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Laura Schulte,
jsonline.com,
9 Oct. 2025
In the fourth inning, the Bronx voodoo swirled in the night sky.
The abacá fibers are harvested three times a year, cut, stripped, dried and bundled before being boiled and pressed into sheets for shipping to Taiwan.
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Andrea Onate,
Footwear News,
9 Oct. 2025
The juice is extracted, boiled, cleaned of impurities, and crystallized.
The result was a gonzo spaghetti Western that seethed with anti-colonialist sentiment and won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
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Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
30 Sep. 2025
Many also seethed over the fact that some of these same teams had memorialized George Floyd, the Black man murdered on video by Derek Chauvin, then a Minneapolis police officer, in 2020, whose death set off a nationwide wave of street demonstrations.
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