ferment
Example Sentences
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When they ferment sugars, they create tiny outward flowing currents across the wet surface.
From Science Daily • Mar. 13, 2026
But although the intellectual ferment of Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries undergirds “Effingers,” Tergit’s heart lies with her characters.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026
By dint of pandemic pauses and far-flung locales around the U.K.’s Cotswolds and on the Welsh Borders, the lineup managed to quietly ferment and realize some of that long-ago unknown magical mystery.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2025
Some of the best bits of “Carole King” are those that give nonmusical readers insight into the creative ferment of the industry.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 16, 2025
But the ferment among the bomb scientists continued—centered, as always, at the Met Lab in Chicago.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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