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Recent Examples of churns
Fashion month and awards season may have drawn to a close, but the global cultural calendar churns on.
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Mahoro Seward, Vogue, 25 Mar. 2026
As the song churns on, the focus narrows in on West until everything else falls away.
—Jayson Greene, Pitchfork, 3 Mar. 2026
Their immense gravitational influence churns gas, dust, and even proximate stars around them, thus exerting a tremendous influence on their host galaxies.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 20 Feb. 2026
Its back is a row of shields and churns the oceans to a frothing boil.
—Big Think, 5 Feb. 2026
Harris is one of tens of thousands of Americans killed or injured each year by gun violence, a public health crisis that escalated in the pandemic and churns a new victim into a hospital emergency room every half hour.
—Fred Clasen-Kelly, USA Today, 19 Dec. 2025
The uptrend remains in place, for sure, even as the index churns under 6900.
—Michael Santoli, CNBC, 12 Dec. 2025
The region will feel the effects of a Catalina eddy, a system that churns in a counter-clockwise direction, funneling moisture ashore, creating a thick marine layer that can extend all the way to the mountains.
—Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Nov. 2025
Forecasters are monitoring a busy Atlantic Ocean after Tropical Storm Humberto formed in the Central Tropical Atlantic, as Hurricane Gabrielle churns to the northeast, and a third potential cyclone threatens to follow.
—Joe Edwards, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Sep. 2025
Mahoro Seward, Vogue, 25 Mar. 2026
As the song churns on, the focus narrows in on West until everything else falls away.
—Jayson Greene, Pitchfork, 3 Mar. 2026
Their immense gravitational influence churns gas, dust, and even proximate stars around them, thus exerting a tremendous influence on their host galaxies.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 20 Feb. 2026
Its back is a row of shields and churns the oceans to a frothing boil.
—Big Think, 5 Feb. 2026
Harris is one of tens of thousands of Americans killed or injured each year by gun violence, a public health crisis that escalated in the pandemic and churns a new victim into a hospital emergency room every half hour.
—Fred Clasen-Kelly, USA Today, 19 Dec. 2025
The uptrend remains in place, for sure, even as the index churns under 6900.
—Michael Santoli, CNBC, 12 Dec. 2025
The region will feel the effects of a Catalina eddy, a system that churns in a counter-clockwise direction, funneling moisture ashore, creating a thick marine layer that can extend all the way to the mountains.
—Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Nov. 2025
Forecasters are monitoring a busy Atlantic Ocean after Tropical Storm Humberto formed in the Central Tropical Atlantic, as Hurricane Gabrielle churns to the northeast, and a third potential cyclone threatens to follow.
—Joe Edwards, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for churns
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The galaxy's heart shines brightly in the image, with gleaming rays of light radiating from its center while gas and dust swirls around.—
Chelsea Gohd,
Space.com,
19 May 2026
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Longoria’s approach to the wild fervour that continually swirls around the Velodrome was to try to harness it by hiring comparably combustible coaches like Jorge Sampaoli, Igor Tudor, Gennaro Gattuso and De Zerbi.—
Tom Williams,
New York Times,
17 May 2026
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Her decision stirs conflicts with her husband (Bernal), daughter (Noomi Rapace), and AI assistant (Beanie Feldstein), revealing the humorous complexity of their relationships.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
22 May 2026
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By evening, the Aries Moon stirs private ambition and a stronger inner conviction about what comes next.—
Tarot.com,
The Orlando Sentinel,
12 May 2026
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His weight fluctuated and boils broke out under his arms and along his neck, said Ramos, who frequently speaks with Castillo and Otero via phone.—
Rick Jervis,
USA Today,
13 May 2026
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Once the water boils, turn off the heat, move the pan off the burner, and let the eggs sit in the hot water for 10 minutes.—
Maddie Topliff,
Better Homes & Gardens,
27 Apr. 2026
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Intel had its best month ever in April, as agentic AI spins up a major renaissance for the central processing unit.—
Katie Tarasov,Jonathan Vanian,
CNBC,
20 May 2026
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The resulting reciprocating airflow spins a turbine, generating electricity that's transmitted to a grid on the shore via a subsea cable.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
19 May 2026
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As Seth seethes about his separation from his home country (and the family fortune), Arias interweaves a backstory involving assassination, undisclosed parentage and (as the title suggests) the perilous creatures slithering across the landscape.—
Michael Schaub,
Los Angeles Times,
12 May 2026
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Trump seethes with hatred and erupts in volcanic fury to denounce, demonize, disparage and threaten anyone who refuses to support his increasingly irrational and harmful proposals and actions.—
Washington Post,
Washington Post,
2 Feb. 2026
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The heady Moon whirls into your 6th House of Effort, highlighting habits that support productivity.—
Tarot.com,
Chicago Tribune,
23 Mar. 2026
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Mortgage rates have been volatile for the last month as the war in Iran roils the bond market, but lately, home borrowing rates have been on a downward trajectory.—
Samantha Delouya,
CNN Money,
29 Apr. 2026
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While an ocean of pain roils under the surface, of course, life continues apace.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
16 Apr. 2026
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“Churns.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/churns. Accessed 24 May. 2026.
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