mass-produce
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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Etymology
Origin of mass-produce
First recorded in 1920–25
Example Sentences
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The template-driven format resembles the output of content mills that mass-produce made-up clickbait stories, said digital literacy expert Mike Caulfield.
From Barron's ● Apr. 28, 2026
He joined Intel in the 1980s and contributed to the company’s golden era, helping build Intel’s chip factories and mass-produce Intel’s 486 microprocessor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025
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
This makes it possible to mass-produce it cheaply.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 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
The AK-47 rifle is a good example: It was developed by Russian designers, influenced by a German assault rifle, then mass-produced by the Soviet Union’s sprawling factories.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
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
I was so sorely in need of company and comfort that the attention brought to making each one of these mass-produced goods felt like a special attention paid to me.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
While Europe and the U.S. first pioneered autonomous vehicles, China took a lead in mass-producing cheap aerial drones.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 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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