crank out
verb
cranked out; cranking out; cranks out
: to produce especially in a mechanical manner
crank out a manuscript
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Ibex is what passes for a heritage company in this space; the company was founded in 1997 and has been cranking out merino garment for a long time.
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Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 6 Mar. 2025
This is about, as the polar ice caps pull back, the Chinese are now cranking out icebreakers and pushing up there as well.
—Mychael Schnell, The Hill, 20 Jan. 2025
By 1998, Vassar signed a record deal with Arista Records and began cranking out No. 1 songs as an artist in his own right.
—Pam Windsor, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
To get around this as well as speed up production, Core Power plans to use Generation 4 reactor design combined with conventional modular shipbuilding methods to crank out floating nuclear plants on an assembly line basis.
—David Szondy, New Atlas, 20 Feb. 2025
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Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 6 Mar. 2025
This is about, as the polar ice caps pull back, the Chinese are now cranking out icebreakers and pushing up there as well.
—Mychael Schnell, The Hill, 20 Jan. 2025
By 1998, Vassar signed a record deal with Arista Records and began cranking out No. 1 songs as an artist in his own right.
—Pam Windsor, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
To get around this as well as speed up production, Core Power plans to use Generation 4 reactor design combined with conventional modular shipbuilding methods to crank out floating nuclear plants on an assembly line basis.
—David Szondy, New Atlas, 20 Feb. 2025
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“Crank out.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crank%20out. Accessed 22 Mar. 2025.
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