churn out

British

verb

to produce (something) at a rapid rate

to churn out ideas
to perform (something) mechanically

to churn out a song

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churn out Idioms

Produce in an abundant and automatic manner, as in He churned out a novel every six months. This idiom transfers the turning of milk into butter to other kinds of production. [Early 1900s]

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In a nondescript warehouse near Munich, a newly opened factory now churns out drones with proprietary Ukrainian engineering.

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With spectacular fecundity, Bach churned out one masterpiece after another in meeting his liturgical deadlines, and they stand as one of the proudest explorations of the human imagination.

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Generative AI feels like magic: It can churn out a sales strategy or write a haiku about yogurt.

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The supply chain ends at massive assembly plants where Apple and contract manufacturing partners churn out hundreds of millions of devices a year.

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Ford is working to overhaul its manufacturing system and, by next year, start up a new type of factory line that churns out $30,000 electric trucks.

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