- present participle of brew.
brewing
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I’ve always known this story was brewing in me.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
Normally, but not always, companies and individuals are cushioned by the Treasury bond market when it seems like a slowdown is brewing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Burton's links with beer date back to the 11th Century when monks first started brewing.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Currently, the company offers a one-hour total body scan that uses its proprietary technology to screen for brewing problems in the blood, skin, and metabolism.
From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026
There’s trouble brewing with the van Daans, I can tell!
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
So what more natural than they would one day talk over endless coffeepots into innumerable midnights, and out of all the talk and the bitter brewings would come—the House of Usher.
From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury
The good women being now supplied with yeast from each other's brewings, would have baked, but two difficulties still remained.
From The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain and Other Tales by Hannah More
She had already the woman's trick of washing her hair in the young birch brewings.
From Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure by Neil Munro
Your Brunswick Mumme," continued the page, "may pass as a refreshing drink; but with our beer you cannot compare it, for the best of our brewings is unknown to you.
From The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 by Various
She came with a bad character enough, accused of bewitching men to their death, spoiling brewings and churnings, and hurting cattle and corn—of being, in fact, a terrible pest to the whole neighbourhood.
From Witch Stories by E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn) Linton
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