ferment

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For that sugar to then ferment and produce alcohol, the person giving the sample would also need to have a yeast infection, she wrote.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026

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

Does the party have the means to ferment a counterculture that is agile, tech-savvy, and fashionable?

From Slate • Jun. 12, 2025

If so, the adoption of Algonkian in the Northeast would mark an era of spiritual ferment and heady conversion, much like the time when Islam rose and spread Arabic throughout the Middle East.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann