mass-produce
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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Etymology
Origin of mass-produce
First recorded in 1920–25
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In 1942, he would do the same for “Wake Island” in the midst of World War II. His work was later etched into metal plates and used to mass-produce publicity prints.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
Nvidia’s robot push creates competition with Tesla, which is converting EV production to mass-produce its Optimus humanoid robot.
From Barron's ● Jun. 1, 2026
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
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
Vintage is gaining popularity because of growing disenchantment with modern, mass-produced luxury, according to Silvia Bellezza, an associate professor of marketing at Columbia Business School.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
“Mine,” in this sense, doesn’t simply allude to something Corvette will steal; she’s referring to all the invisible things that comprise a mass-produced product — the labor and energy and time.
From Salon ● May 22, 2026
A little over 20 years ago, on March 14, 2006, the last mass-produced VHS tape hit video stores: David Cronenberg’s crime thriller “A History of Violence.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026
They seem desperate, struggling to earn enough to send money home, as they cope with the massive shifts in Chinese manufacturing, from cheap, mass-produced goods to automated advanced tech.
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2026
America's factories efficiently mass-produced military weapons, planes, tanks, cars, and other machinery with fewer workers and at a lower cost.
From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple
Elon Musk’s EV recently ceased production External link of the Model S and X. Tesla is converting that capacity in Fremont, Calif., to a line for mass-producing the humanoid robot, Optimus.
From Barron's ● Jun. 1, 2026
And across the country, organizers like Bridges are mass-producing them for cheap at home.
From Slate ● Jan. 31, 2026
Chief Executive Bryon Hargis said it isn’t the straightforward engineering of quintupling the sound barrier that has held the U.S. back, but the manufacturing challenge of mass-producing weapons that can do so reliably and economically.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
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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