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Recent Examples of churnedThe 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 In the wake of a cyclone, surface water temperatures plummet, and nutrient-rich deeper layers are churned upward.—Scott Travers, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2025 But other areas that had been under the control of the Kachin resistance were also churned up for rare earth mining, residents say.—Hannah Beech, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024
Two developments in 1976 had stirred interest in searching for undersea freshwater.
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Rodrique Ngowi,
Fortune,
7 Sep. 2025
All this has stirred some fresh thinking among Democrats about whether activists must demand that candidates agree with all of their positions, or whether victory demands more flexibility.
Tales are spun and then immediately tied back up into knots, and its gothic drama provides a fresh new place for Johnson to play in his preferred genre.
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Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
6 Sep. 2025
Meer took the snap, rolled to his right and spun away from the pressure.
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