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churn out

verb

  1. to produce (something) at a rapid rate

    to churn out ideas

  2. to perform (something) mechanically

    to churn out a song



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Idioms and Phrases

Produce in an abundant and automatic manner, as in He churned out a novel every six months . This idiom transfers the turning of milk into butter to other kinds of production. [Early 1900s]

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Example Sentences

Egg-laying hens are placed in cages to unnaturally churn out egg after egg.

Colleges churn out graduates and confer advanced degrees, but the scramble for jobs continues.

Academics these days operate under enormous pressure to churn out high volumes of these publications.

The clock is relentless as they churn out dish after dish, being judged on creativity, taste, and presentation.

By the end of the film, you will remember Hushpuppy … and just might churn out a few tears on her behalf.

You note it is not a shade above the thing which all human beings churn out in their youth.

A wag searched for the Pagliacci record, and set the gramophone to churn out "Vesti la Giubba."

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