cranked out

verb

past tense of crank out
as in worked up

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cranked out
  1. worked up
  2. turned out
  3. hammered out
  4. worked out
  5. created
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  • He feels emotionally ambushed, and what plays out is as if Marriage Story were an absolute chucklefest, as Lestat gets increasingly worked up and jealous over Louis’s relationships with other men.
    — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 15 June 2026
  • Church’s numinous-sun-over-still-water routine had begun to look a bit like a shtick, equally applicable to scenes of the Hudson or those worked up from 20-year-old sketches of South America.
    — Susan Tallman, The Atlantic, 13 June 2026
Definition of worked up
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  • As the evening fell in Spain's capital, the wide Paseo del Prado boulevard became a sea of umbrellas as a huge crowd turned out during steady rain.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 12 Nov. 2026
  • And worse yet, the most promising evidence of AI speeding up materials science turned out to be completely fabricated.
    — Dan Garisto, Scientific American, 12 Nov. 2026
Definition of turned out
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  • The details would be hammered out back in Washington, the people said.
    — Cate Brown, ProPublica, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Home Depot has hammered out a deal to partner with one of its hometown sports franchises.
    — Amy Wenk, AJC.com, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of hammered out
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  • There’s a whole methodology for opacity that people in medicine have worked out.
    — ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 10 Nov. 2026
  • Sieler hopes to have the surgery late this week, but that’s still being worked out.
    — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 10 Nov. 2026
Definition of worked out
Verb
  • So the committee created a clip library, and began to grow its group of unpaid influencers.
    — Max Tani, semafor.com, 9 Nov. 2026
  • Then a group created to save the ship, the SS United States Conservancy, bought it in 2011.
    — Todd C. Frankel, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2026
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“Cranked out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cranked%20out. Accessed 14 Nov. 2026.

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