mass-produce
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of mass-produce
First recorded in 1920–25
Example Sentences
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Tesla, led by Elon Musk, overcame “production hell” to mass-produce the Model 3, inspiring GM to target a full EV transition by 2035.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026
What if the United States could mass-produce its way out of a housing crisis?
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2026
Tesla recently announced it would stop selling its higher-priced Model S and X vehicles and turn that capacity into a facility to mass-produce humanoid robots.
From Barron's ● Feb. 1, 2026
For example, in Austin, Texas, I visited the team at Aalo Atomics, a startup aiming to mass-produce SMRs in a factory setting.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 24, 2025
We live in societies that mass-produce facts: packages are marked with weights, road signs tell you distances and, in some countries, the populations of the towns you are passing through.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
And they can do it cheaper than the West, by using mass-produced Chinese parts.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
“Someone is not trying to have a mass-produced item to tap and pay,” he told MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 22, 2026
Where the company was once the best-known name in media rip-offs, it now leaves behind only mass-produced plastic and fuzzy memories.
From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2026
At the time the viability of electric vehicles as a large market was a pipedream and the Prius was the world's first mass-produced petrol and electric hybrid.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
Founded in 1948, it was, in many ways, meant to be the paragon of suburban life, with mass-produced houses and cookie-cutter yards.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
Sentiment toward the semiconductor sector was hit by a report that a Chinese state-backed company began mass-producing chip-making equipment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
It turned out that mass-producing instant coffee gave the company little insight into how to run an artisanal coffee shop.
From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026
And across the country, organizers like Bridges are mass-producing them for cheap at home.
From Slate ● Jan. 31, 2026
Chef Busato acknowledges that it isn't practical to seek artisanal standards if you're mass-producing baked goods, and so big players will have to rely on frozen dough.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2025
They also knew that, before mass-producing any cells, they’d need to find a new way to ship them.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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