ferment

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When they ferment sugars, they create tiny outward flowing currents across the wet surface.

From Science Daily • Mar. 13, 2026

Audrey Truschke’s single-volume work makes a bold attempt to capture thousands of years of cultural ferment on the Indian subcontinent.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 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

Nobody knows how many rebellions besides political rebellions ferment in the masses of life which people earth.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë