ferment
Example Sentences
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The familiar chewy texture and tangy flavor of sourdough come from a complex mix of microorganisms that ferment the dough.
From Science Daily • Jan. 21, 2026
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
Does the party have the means to ferment a counterculture that is agile, tech-savvy, and fashionable?
From Slate • Jun. 12, 2025
Calmly, Granddaddy said, “I have managed to take perfectly good pecans and ferment them into something approximating cat piss.”
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
