to churn out
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4.0
- phrasal verb
- /tʃɜrn aʊt/
- Informal
:
producir en masa
- The Asha plan, on the other hand, envisions a large plant capable of churning out 30 cars per day.
- churn out products
I'm told that he's not incredibly experienced, but they churn out science stories by the dozen.
- I'm told that he's not incredibly experienced, but they churn out science stories by the dozen.
- We work with them consistently and they churn out scripts.
- And I think that's quite misleading because I could be churning out words that are meaningless.
- So you're not obligated to, to keep churning stuff out with, with no breaks.
- I'm a, I'm a bit of a Mettler and I love Slayer, but they churn out so many albums.
- It is a film that you, it's like a machine that just keeps churning out joy, right?
- So it's stuck trying to churn out old answers to new problems and they're not working.
- And then you should probably have a language for sort of quickly churning out something.
- They're enabled by living in a culture which constantly churns this stuff out for them.
- I see him still churning out quite a few novels, some of them pretty good.
- But you can actually go and license Ava right now if you wanted to and churn out music for your for your products.
- So there we were kind of churning out press releases, strategizing, coming up with a wide array of arguments.
- And Michael Clegg just wanted to, you know, churn out as much MDMA as possible as quickly as possible, making a lot of money.
- But and you just continue to churn out valuable information, actionable tools, you know, book and after book after book.
Examples
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Many fast-food restaurants churn out meals quickly to meet high customer demand during lunch hours.
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With the new software, they can churn out reports in a matter of minutes, regardless of complexity.
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Thank you," the machine says, churning out two tickets.
Fiction book (1996) -
I see him still churning out quite a few novels, some of them pretty good.
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At the same time, the business, law, and medical schools will continue to churn out trained professionals.
Academic text (1995) -
Any artist worth their salt can churn out commissioned jobs.
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We work with them consistently and they churn out scripts.
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As a blogger, your first priority should be to churn out regular quality content for your readers.
Blog text (19) -
The factory can churn out thousands of toys every day, each one produced in less than an hour.
Synonyms
17
3.5
To produce many things quickly, often using machines
16
4.0
To make many things quickly, often without much care
2
6.0
Make many things like reports or products in a dull routine way
1
6.6
Make or finish something quickly with little effort
How Fast
Surface Forms
Morphology
churn + out
The sense 'produce quickly in large quantities' is a metaphorical extension of 'churn' (to agitate or, historically, to make butter) with 'out' indicating output; the image is of items being forced out of a churning process. Because this meaning relies on a figurative production metaphor and 'churn' is relatively low-frequency, a B1 learner who knows the parts would only partially infer the full sense without prior exposure.
Etymology
Churn out comes from the old butter churn, where people turned the tool again and again to push butter out in large amounts. So, it now means 'to make a lot of something fast', often without much care.