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ferment

[fur-ment, fer-ment] / ˈfɜr mɛnt, fərˈmɛnt /




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Then we let it ferment and age to make soy sauce.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

It is still unknown whether chimpanzees deliberately choose fruits with higher ethanol levels, which tend to be riper and richer in sugar that can ferment.

From Science Daily • Dec. 1, 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

Bottum, the co-founder of the band Faith No More, offers up an elegy to a lost time and place: pre-tech bro San Francisco in the 1980s, when cultural ferment was in the air.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 2, 2025

Back in 1972 Crosby invented a term for this biological ferment: the Columbian Exchange.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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