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On Saturday, Scholz and Baerbock were drumming up support in Potsdam, the riverside capital of the German state of Brandenburg, just 16 miles southeast of Berlin, where both candidates are running for the seat.

From Washington Post • Sep. 25, 2021

By the end of July, they were drumming up support for a ballot measure that would allow New Hampshire to secede from the United States.

From The Verge • Aug. 2, 2021

On Monday, Ms. Trump and Mr. Mnuchin were drumming up support for the bill at a business roundtable in Newport Beach, California.

From Washington Times • Nov. 6, 2017

He delivered these words in an unhurried slur: his warm Southern accent and peculiar enunciation soften the percussive force of his syllables, as if he were drumming with brushes.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 1, 2016

For the next two years or so Mompesson’s house was haunted by a poltergeist.2 There were drumming noises but also strange levitations of objects and alarming noises.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton