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brewing

[broo-ing] / ˈbru ɪŋ /






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The revolt brewing against smart glasses has made some users more wary about where they’re wearing the gadget and potential awkward encounters.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 7, 2026

But the brewing storm over the reversal and the halftime show caused him to hold back.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 6, 2026

“The market is pricing in more uncertainty today that the rate of AI spending continues for several years,” Kerwin said, noting that there are fears brewing over memory overcapacity.

From MarketWatch Aug. 3, 2026

Unfortunately, a broader conflict seems to be brewing.

From Slate Jul. 20, 2026

Otherwise, Claudia would have worried for fear the driver could hear her heart, for it sounded to her like their electric percolator brewing the morning’s coffee.

From "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg

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

It is the poetry of beer; it is to all other brewings what Shakespeare is to the drama; what the Coliseum is to other antiquities.

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

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

And here is a tale of the crafty Ogs, In their neighbouring land of Podge; Of their sayings and doings and plottings and brewings, And something about Sir Stodge.

From The Glugs of Gosh by C. J. (Clarence James) Dennis




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