churn out

verb

churned out; churning out; churns out

transitive verb

: to produce mechanically or copiously : grind out
the usual pap which has been churned out about this superstarW. S. Murphy

Examples of churn out in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Combs formed Bad Boy Records in the early 1990s with the backing of legendary Arista executive Clive Davis and churned out a parade of critical and commercial hits developing such artists as the Notorious B.I.G and Faith Evans. Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 28 Oct. 2024 Attracting first-timers is one reason why homebuilders are churning out smaller, less expensive houses. Kate Murphy, Axios, 18 Oct. 2024 Founded by Dan Porter in 2016, the company initially created content around sports, but has since become a league itself, with its Overtime Elite basketball league churning out NBA stars, a low-impact football league OT7 trying to create a new type of football viewer, and even a move into boxing. Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Oct. 2024 But this enforcement was just a quick fix in a never-ending game of whack-a-mole in the land of generative AI, where new pieces of media are churned out every day using derivatives of other media scraped haphazardly from the web. Megan Farokhmanesh Lauren Goode, WIRED, 15 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for churn out 

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Word History

First Known Use

1876, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of churn out was in 1876

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“Churn out.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/churn%20out. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.

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