ferment
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Florence, wracked by dissent and besieged by the Holy Roman Empire, remained in ferment until the Medicis consolidated power in 1530 into what became the Duchy of Florence.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
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
North Africa was by then the Bible Belt of the late Roman West, characterized by intense Christian devotion and intellectual ferment.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 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
A magazine had asked me to cover the intellectual ferment caused by the decipherment of Maya hieroglyphics.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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