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Ukrainian drone manufacturers have been churning out hundreds of thousands of inexpensive, agile quadcopters that rely on digital communications to find targets.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 27, 2025

Usually, questions have been churning around in my subconscious for a long time, and I’ve been toying with asking questions, doing research and trying to figure out what I think about various ethical dilemmas.

From Seattle Times • May 17, 2023

Cryobanks and doctors have been churning through cautionary scenarios as well: A Texas infertility doctor asked if he should retain a criminal defense lawyer.

From New York Times • Jul. 5, 2022

“Hurricanes have been churning up ocean waters and slamming into land for all of recorded history,” historian Eric Jay Dolin writes in “A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America’s Hurricanes.”

From Washington Post • Oct. 1, 2020

I have been churning, and packing butter, every day since Monday, and could not get out.

From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Rameur, E.